- Note - If anyone has further information
on 'anti-hail radar' please advise us. We are aware that Russian 'weather
control' machines have been being sold for the past couple of years and
perhaps this story is alluding to that technology. The units are designed
and function to control and modify weather over a limited area and were/are
for sale, we believe, for less than $100,000. We magine a lot of Americans
would be interested in this technology...
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- SOFIA, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Bulgaria's
valuable vegetable crop has become the latest casualty of NATO's air war
against neighboring Yugoslavia.
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- The Agriculture Ministry said Wednesday
that hailstorms destroyed millions of dollars of crops this month because
anti-hail radar systems were turned off to avoid attracting the hostile
attention of NATO warplanes en route to Yugoslavia.
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- ``The anti-hail systems have been switched
off because they use radar to detect hailstorm clouds and guide anti-hail
missiles to destroy them,'' an official told Reuters.
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- ``NATO planes can easily mistake these
radars with anti-aircraft defenses in Yugoslavia,'' the official said.
The two systems use similar frequencies.
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- Anti-hail missiles are designed to cause
the ice in hailstorm clouds to turn to water or evaporate.
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- Hailstorms damaged 77,000 acres across
Bulgaria by May 22, the ministry said. Some 40 percent of crops in those
areas were considered lost, with damage estimated at $8.7 million.
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- Bulgaria allowed NATO to use its airspace
for strikes against Yugoslavia on May 4. Bulgaria and Yugoslavia have similar
types of Russian-built air defenses.
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- Five stray NATO air-to-ground HARM missiles
and another Russian-made missile have hit Bulgarian territory near the
western border with Yugoslavia.
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- Agriculture accounts for about 20 percent
of Bulgaria's gross domestic product.
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