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- From: Don Palmrose <dpe@inel.gov>
- Subject: Re: Air launched tomahawk?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:40:59 GMT
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- From Don Palmrose <dpe@inel.gov>
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- In article <C17vrH.EwA@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock) writes:
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- >
- > From hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)
- >
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- [info on SLAM deleted to save space, thanks for the correction, Travis]
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- > |> I thought that the Navy was talking about making Tomahawk air-
- > |> launchable but I think its length does make it difficult to put
- > |> under a wing of A-6 or F/A-18.
- >
- > You'd be surprised at what they could put under a wing. ;)
- >
- > Length really doesn't have that much to do with it. Those monster
- > fuel tanks must be 15-20 feet long! A Tomahawk isn't that much
- > longer than a SLAM or HARM.
- >
- > The Tomahawk only weighs about 2,000-3,000 lbs and the A-6 can carry
- > several 2000 lb bombs.
- >
- > TRAVIS
- > hhtra@chevron.com
- >
-
- If it is not weight, then there is another reason why Tomahawks cannot be
- launched from aircraft. Thinking about this, I may have come up with one
- reason. Currently, they are only launched from ships. Ships have greater
- computing power onboard than aircraft. I do remember reading somewhere in
- either an old Scientific American or USNI Proceedings that the steps that
- must be performed prior to launching a Tomahawk are rather involved. Stuff
- like downloading the route that the missile is going to follow etc. Could
- it be that this is too much info to be downloaded to the Tomahawk's onboard
- computer that it cannot be easily done on today's aircraft and it cannot
- be done on the flight deck just prior to launching the aircraft?
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- It would seem to me that this problem, what ever it is, could be easily
- corrected. Just makes me wonder more why it has not been.
-
- Don Palmrose
- "There are only two kinds of ships.... Those that project power onto shore
- and those that either protect or support the power projectors."
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