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- From: chadwemy@bigwpi.wpi.edu (Chad Barret Wemyss)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: Re: Air launched tomahawk?
- Message-ID: <C1D89q.9Dx@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 15:56:14 GMT
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- From Chad Barret Wemyss <chadwemy@bigwpi.wpi.edu>
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- In article <C17vM6.ErK@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> creps@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Stephen A. Creps) writes:
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > 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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- The AGM-84E Standoff Land Attack Missile, or SLAM, uses the Harpoon airframe
- with an electro-optical (TV) guidance system, with a similar warhead. It can
- achieve ranges upwards of 50 nm, and was used with great success from A-6E's
- in Desert Storm against targets ranging from bridges to buildings.
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- The SLAM is steered by the A-6's Bombadier/Navigator (BN) by means of a small
- CRT and joystick in the cockpit. He lines the crosshairs up on the intended
- target and the missile flies toward it. This keeps tha the launch aircraft out
- of harms (SAM's) way, and can deliver an extremely accurate 500 lbs of
- destruction.
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- Chad Wemyss
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-