From: Stig Agermose <stig.agermose@get2net.dk>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 02:49:35 +0100 (MET)
Fwd Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 17:52:12 -0500
Subject: TASS Story On Russian Plasma Stealth Confirmed


Source:

http://www.ufomind.com/military/aircraft/skunkworks/m
ailing/msg02038.shtml

Stig

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Re: Russian plasma stealth?

From: "Allen Thomson"
Subject: Re: Russian plasma stealth?
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:23:58 -0700

Sam Kaltsidis said:

>I've also removed those annoying carriage returns,
>but haven't fixed the spelling errors.

>BTW: What's up with all the spelling mistakes? Did
>this really come from a news agency?

>Author=Philip Kaploun
>Russian Low Observability Technologies Data
>Released
>Russian Scientists Created Revolutionary Low
>Observability Technologies
>Moscow, January 20. Nicolai Novichkov, ITAR-TASS
>information agency

<everything snipped>

>Translation by Philip Kaploun.

Novichkov is a well-known and respected aerospace reporter. Most
of the text has the typical look of stuff that has been
almost-translated into English from Russian, but some of it
makes me think Kaploun may be more familiar with French than
English  terminology ( e.g., "furtiveness" instead of
"stealthiness"). Or maybe he was doing it from a French
almost-translation of the Russian original

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"pharabod@in2p3.fr" who broke the story to the Skunk Works list
is French, so maybe he got the story from AFP (Agence
France-Presse).

Stig