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- From: Scott Olson <sdo@email.sp.paramax.com>
- Subject: Re: Apache and AMRAAM
- Message-ID: <C19nMD.2t1@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- Organization: Paramax - Eagan, MN
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:37:24 GMT
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- From Scott Olson <sdo@email.sp.paramax.com>
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- MegaZone23 <megazone@obsidian.wpi.edu> writes:
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- > Say, Chaparal(sp?) uses Sidewinders with a booster and AMRAAM is compatible
- > with Sidewinder rails... So, would it be possible to change the electronics
- > suite on the Chaparal to use AMRAAM SAMs? How about replacing Sea Sparrow
- > with Sea AMRAAM? (say, does the AMRAAM have a name yet? I think Dale Brown
- > uses Scorpion, but he isn't very reliable. In 'Sky Masters' he refers to
- > the CIWS as 20mm and 30mm, plus a bunch of other stuff is screwy....)
- >
- Well, in theory, your could probably hang an AIM-120 on a Chapparal
- rail, but the Chapparal system has no sensors to give the AIM-120 launch
- data. It's basically, as I recall, a fair-weather system, unlike Roland
- or Rapier. Besides, the launcher vehicle is too slow to keep up with
- the M-1's and M-2's. The US Army desperately needs some modern short-
- range anti-air.
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- Scott Olson
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