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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: Re: Tomahawk cost
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- Date: 24 Jan 93 16:06:29 GMT
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- From ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
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- In article <C19ns2.330@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Brian Douglass <anasaz!briand@anasazi.com> writes:
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- >Also, back to fixed targets, there is another version of the TLAM that has
- >cluster munitions instead of a fixed warhead. It's typical attack profile is
- >against targets that you want to maintain area denial, ala, an airfield.
- >Let one fly the length of a runway spitting out cluster bombs, and it
- >will take the enemy quite a while to clear the strip, by which time you
- >should be able to crater and cluster again.
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- Ah..
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- This explains the cruise missile they were using for "smart weapon"
- research - basically something with a brain sophisticated enough to
- loiter above a battlefield and recognize enemy armor. When an enemy
- has been recognized it attacked using cluster bombs. This was, I be-
- live, in Nova on PBS.
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- What happens to the missile afterwards? I don't see why it can't be
- programmed to turn around again and fly home for retrieval/reuse -
- and if the range is too far, there would be a self-destruct option,
- or it could be used without explosives on a second target.
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- Also, (to bring up a previous thread) this version would be more
- suitable for dropping MREs over friendlies - preferrably with small
- parachutes - than the version with the warhead (for obvious reasons).
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