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- From: wwo@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Thomas Schoene)
- Subject: Re: Air launched tomahawk?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:47:36 GMT
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- From wwo@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Thomas Schoene)
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- In article <C15yF6.KC1@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>,
- Don Palmrose <dpe@inel.gov> writes:
- >> From Apostolos Karmirantzos <karmira@natinst.com>
- >
- > As for US Navy cruise missiles, only the Harpoon (50 NM range according to
- > open literature) is air launchable and does not have a land-version (anti-ship
- > only). 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.
- The Navy does indeed have a land attack veersion of Harpoon called SLAM which
- was used experimentally in the Gulf. (as was the British Alarm to answer
- another post). Tomahawk was considered in an air launched form. I think it
- was cost rather than fit which killed it.
-
- More recently, a Tomahawk variant has been submitted to the British sor their
- new stand-off attack missile program.
- >
- > I do remember that the manufacturer of Tomahawk did submitted it
- > in the competition for the Air Force's ALCM program but lost to the Boeing
- > design. I guess the Air Force doesn't like anything the Navy produces ;-)
- > Also, look who's land attack cruise missile is seeing all the action :-) :-).
-
- Don't forget those conventional ALCMs at the beginning of ODS.
-
- >
- > 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."
- --
- Tom Schoene
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