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- From: eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
- Subject: Re: Air launched tomahawk?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:51:09 GMT
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- From eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
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- >creps@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Stephen A. Creps) writes:
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- > There's an ad by McDonnell Douglas on the back of the March 1992
- >UNSI Proceedings for a missile called SLAM (Standoff Land Attack
- >Missile). It says that it "is produced on the same production line
- >and supported by the existing Harpoon logistics system." It also
- >looks just like a Harpoon in the picture.
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- > I think this would qualify as a land-attack version of the Harpoon,
- >but I don't know whether it's in actual use or not.
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- It is and it is :-) They used SLAM to take out that pumping station that was
- pumping crude into the gulf.
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- cheers
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- --
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- Erik Svensson
- Research Officer National Defense Research Establishment (FOA)
- Guided Weapons Division Stockholm, Sweden eriks@fenix.lin.foa.se
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- "The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present"
- -- Hobbes
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