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- From: eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: Re: Air launched tomahawk?
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:26:53 GMT
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- From eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
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- hhtra@usho21.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock) writes:
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- >From hhtra@usho21.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)
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- >In article <C19o99.429@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2) writes:
- >|>>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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- > Nope.
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- > TV-guided GBU-15's (?) launched from an F-111 did the trick.
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- Oops, sorry about that. I do know they used them,though. Launched by an A-6
- and guided by an A-7 (or is my memory on the blink again?)
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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"
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