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- From: hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)
- Subject: Re: Tomahawk cost
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:42:29 GMT
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- From hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)
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- In article <C1D8qt.A92@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- |> 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.
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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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- Typically, they would do one of the following after dispensing
- their load of submunitions:
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- Nose over and auger in.
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- Nose over and attack, if dispension based upon detection.
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- Become aerodynamically unstable and crash.
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