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- From: eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: Re: Tomahawk cost
- Message-ID: <C1F74r.L13@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:26:50 GMT
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- From eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
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- "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil> writes:
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- >That's what I was getting at. The original poster seemed to be questioning
- >the effectiveness of antiship missiles due to the effectiveness of shipboard
- >close in defense systems. My response was meant to ask "Effective against
- >what?" There are many different threat levels, and the systems are meant
- >to address them all, yet we've really only seen the lower end of the
- >threat spectrum.
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- There are a lot of things you can do with the missile to essentially render
- most of the current gun based CIWS helpless against wave attacks.
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- cheers
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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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