8 Dec
2002
8 Dec
'02
5:02 p.m.
Well, it's certainly a reasonable price to pay if
you're the US military
and you need one of these. What I want to know, and this is perhaps
ignorance on my part of how this works wrt to these sorts of things,
exactly what are these boxes doing up for grabs on the free market in
Dubai? I mean, assuming for a moment that these are systems which could
be used as spares for gear in service--thereby justifying the quoted
price--how exactly would they end up NIB in non-US gov't hands to be
offered for sale?
Probably just a screwup. It happens all the time in military surplus.
These were probably to be shipped back to the US and then surplussed.
Or they fell of the truck. That happens alot, as well.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org