[SOC] Local flap

[Bill Cunningham]

>
> > One locality uses quad .50 calibre machine guns.
>
> uh-huuh ... Long-rifle kind of gun ??

Not quite, altho most sniper rifles are .50 cal.  That's 12.7 mm to you.  A
quad 50 (4 of them) is a close-in (single point) air defense weapon from an
earlier era.   Puts up a lot steel for a km or so.

>
> I have spent 10 days in Lapland 3 years ago, on the Finland side of the
area
> (Lapland is lying on Sweden & Finland - sri if you know it ;o))
> I was there by the end of March. The local guide warned tourists to avoid
coming
> in the area during the summer otherwhise we should have to fight with the
> well-known Finland Air Force.

Alaska claims to be bothered by world class mosquitoes,.probably similar.
They are huge, but slow.  Big enough to show up on radar, but below velocity
gate.  Doesn't take many to suck you dry, but easilty defended.  Our worst
are the little black salt marsh critters, fast and stealthy.  These engage
in daily dogfights with the F-16s at nearby Langley AFB.  Score is about
even over the years.  This accounts for proficiency of both USAF pilots and
the damned mosquitoes.

> >Barking Tree Frog
>
> Once agn the Frogs are in the story .. ! But assuming that frogs eat
mosquitos,
> you should really take care of them !
> They are your allied in this story !

Evidently, that assumption is behind the flap and is unfounded.  At least
they don't eat the larvae -- and that's the whole point.  The control troops
are after the larvae.  Now the Barking Tree Frog may have been known by the
French forces at battle of Yorktown.  If you study the terrain carefully,
they were positioned  on higher ground away from the worst of the marshes.
Smart move.

73,

Bill C.