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- From: John Walker <walker-john@yale.edu>
- Subject: Re: Air launched tomahawk?
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:20:15 GMT
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- From John Walker <walker-john@yale.edu>
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- Could somebody let me know a source that might list all the variant
- Tomahawks and ALCMs? (Or if you wish to post them, great!)
-
- The nuclear ALCM has a CEP of around 200 meters -- certainly not good
- enough to hit goal posts, or even a football field! I assume this is
- because it is *not* terminally guided (not enough mission flexibility? who
- knows...)
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- So to hear about a conventionally-armed Boeing ALCM implies an alternative
- variant -- one with terminal guidance. Does anybody know details on these
- variants? A similar situation exists with the Tomahawk...
-
- Thanks
-
- Walker
- >
- > Re accuracy: the AF generals said, "Not only can we hit a football
- > field, we can target any yardline." So I was told. It would be
- > interesting to know the accuracy numbers for the DS ALCM strikes
- > because it's likely that the Tomahawk is actually the second best
- > cruise missile in the world.
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- John Walker (203) 436-0915 walker-john@yale.edu
- Yale University
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