European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday March 24, 1991in the Gulf at a glance Index Abby Ann Landers 16 commentary. 15 letters 14 Money matters .17-18 Mutual. 19-20 sports. 21-28 to listings .21 weather .11 a tiny shop in it pics him Germany has the inapt touch for kaput musical instruments of . Schoolchildren. Sunday Magazine. All pals at the Border a the War is Over and we Are friends a says an iraqi officer at the demarcation line separating americans and iraqis. A Page 4 smoking ban urged president Bush is being urged to ban smoking in Federal executive Branch agencies and buildings. A Page 5 Hollywood style Story the accomplice to murder trial of Pamela smart Wilt be coming soon to a to set or theater near you. A Page 6 cold War Flashback the . Ambassador to Moscow is embroiled in a verbal Battle with Kremlin controlled Media Over american support for striking soviet miners a. A page7 officers win delay four los Angeles police officers accused of assault in the videotaped beating of a Black Motorist win a delay to enter their pleas in court. A Page 13 playing Market for fun the guru of investment clubs says it makes sense to play the Stock Market for fun and profit. A Page 17 captured iraqi weapons scrutinized for Ltd John Millar Middle East Bureau Dhah ran saudi Arabia a not All Cabin red iraqi tanks being shipped to the United states will end up As museum pieces or Lawn ornaments for military Headquarters. Some will become targets again. Much of the iraqi equipment Comman decree by . Forces will be evaluated by military intelligence agencies to determine its capabilities and vulnerabilities according to army it. Col. Martin Klos Ter the commander of the joint captured material exploitation Center set up in Dha Liran. / a live firing is part of that testing of  he said. A some May ultimately get blown apart As part of that  iraqi president Saddam Hussein procured War goods from a variety of source including the soviet onion and China soviet built t-72 tanks Are consid cred rivals of the . My Abrams and despite the coalition s speedy win on the Battlefield . Intelligence officials stir will want to know How Best to defeat the tank Kloster said. Hence some of capture d i a q i versions of the tank will end up on the army a firing Range at Aberdeen proving grounds my. However much of the iraqi equipment will be scrutinized tested and evaluated by scientists and technicians in the . Intelligence Community not destroyed. More that 200 soldiers sailors airmen and marines work at the Dhahran facility Kloster said. Some Are still gathering the spoils of War from the Field. The Deputy commander army maj. Howard Baum would not put a precise figure on the amount of equipment acquired but said it is a a  but Kloster said that More than 400 different types of enemy equipment have been gathered for intelligence purposes a the variety is just unbelievable a he said ranging from soviet built tanks and jordanian ammunition to romanian made rifles and British radios. Teams of military analysts conduct preliminary studies of the equipment at the Center Kloster said. Experts in Armor and mechanics study tanks. Small arms specialists examine rifles and pistols. The first task is to categorize the equipment by where it was found who manufactured it and who in the intelligence Community needs to study it further. Analysts also look for modifications made to equipment since knowledge of modifications May help Battlefield commanders better counteract enemy sys tems Kloster said. In fact the unit was Able to provide information on modifications to such enemy equipment As and mines and tanks while the War was under Way Kloster  iraqi forces were repelled from Tho Northern saudi arabian town of Khanji for example Koster s unit studied the iraqi tanks left behind i hey Learned that some. T-55 and t-62 series tanks were equipped with add on Armor. Although Only a few vehicles had the extra Armor Koster said the information was of value to commanders when the ground War started. The army analysts said it is difficult to determine Why Saddam a military machine folded so quickly in the fight. However several members of the unit have Clear opinions of the equipment they . 1st class Dame Purden is on a. A a a a a a. A amps John Millar pfc. Peter ten Eyck stands beside a stack of captured iraqi rifles. Team of analysts specializing in biological. And chemical equipment and said he believes the iraqis weren t As Well equipped to handle their own chemical agents As the . Forces were. A i was surprised to find the variety of chemical gear a Purden said. Iraqi units for example used several types of protective masks. Some of. The iraqi manufactured masks were modelled after romanian equipment. Others were modified versions of yugoslav masks a a lot of the masks did no to have interchangeable filters a he said. Iraqi troops were equipped with a soviet manufactured chemical protective Cape that left a lot to be desired Purden said. Unlike the american protective suit the soviet Cape Isnit designed to fully cover the body and does no to close completely in front. He said the capes were designed to be used once and thrown away but the iraqis had a limited Supply that ind heated i hey Wou i d have reused them if a chemical attack had occurred. A Quot a a a. A a in my opinion they would have been doing a great disservice to their own soldiers if they had used chemicals a Purden a said. 7 a a. A Small arms specialist pfc. Peter ten Eyck said the iraqi Arsenal of hand held weapons offered no surprises. He had seen most of the rifles pistols and machine guns before lie said. He said iraqi weapons such As the soviet ak-47 Are common and Many Are used by . Army opposing Force teams in training. The iraqi made Tariq 9mni pistol is almost identical to the . Army a 9mm pistol he said. The . Uses a 9mm pistol made by Beretta. The iraqis ten Eyck said manufactured the Tariq under a License from Beretta. A your m-9 service pistol is basically the same design with a few safety features added a he said. -7 a with a round in the chamber the iraqi pistol can to be put on Safe without the Lammer cocked to the rear. If the safety switch was disengaged by a Jolt the Hammer could fall and fire the Bullet. A i wonder How Many were wounded just walking around with that one a ten Eyck said. Most of the iraqi Small arms were in poor condition he said a a we be found hundreds of weapons  that were  most were either rusted or filled with Sand. A either they were poorly maintained or they just threw them in the Sand a he  ill. Be used in Gulf in Washington up a a developmental army air Force plane that was rushed into he persian Gulf War painted ail electronic display of shifting iraqi forces and helped target mane vering and fleeing forces army officials said. The services owned Only two of the joint surveillance and target attack radar system planes but those and six ground stations used to Send Battlefield data to ground commanders were quickly sent to the persian Gulf and staffed with technicians trained in a crash course. Col. Mendel Solomon the army a program manager for the ground station and Deputy manager of the entire stars program briefed reporters Friday on the programs contribution to the War. 1 a displayed photographs from radar screens that shoved mane vering iraqi columns that were later attacked by Allied planes. He also showed photographs that depicted roads into Iraq and the City of Basra clogged with a solid line of retreating troops. A every place they went. Stars saw them a said Solomon. So detailed  pictures that about so Miles of concertina wire across Southern Kuwait and Iraq was depicted because Strong winds kept moving the wire about. The plane spots slow moving objects including aircraft and the wire w As vibrating just fast enough to show up on radar screens. On the third Day of the ground War with roads into Southeast Iraq blocked the js1ars saw a line of iraqi forces fleeing North from Basra toward a cause Way across a Lake. The causeway had been severed and the pictures showed the fishhook shape of the column As it turned to seek another Avenue of escape. It also showed the flight from Kuwait City. The stars also told ground commanders that the iraqi troops who attacked the town of Khanji had no reinforcements behind them other officials said. The system now in full scale development by Grumman for the services is designed to relay a graphic look at what is moving on the Battlefield. When forces Stop moving and Are no longer visible to the plane s regular radar it can use Quot synthetic aperture radar a which then allows it to see fixed objects