Gulf Allies Forced to Use Soviet Satellite
<i> Reuters</i>
LONDON — Gulf War allies were forced to lease space on a Soviet spacecraft because communications circuits on U.S. satellites were saturated, a magazine reported Friday.
The report in Jane’s Military Communications said the allied military leased transponders, which receive communications and retransmit them on a different frequency, on the Soviet Gorizont satellite system.
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