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tarheelsunc

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8. I wouldn't say "no guts at all"

Reply to Mika (Reply #6)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 03:18 PM

Feb 2016

The article mentions several things which were not present but it says nothing about the computer system / software. I'm assuming this inert missile had a fully functional computer system with software loaded, which would make it still extremely valuable.

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