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- From: hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)
- Subject: SLAM description (Was Re: Air launched tomahawk?)
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:55:51 GMT
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- From hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)
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- In article <C1D89q.9Dx@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, chadwemy@bigwpi.wpi.edu (Chad Barret Wemyss) writes:
- |> The AGM-84E Standoff Land Attack Missile, or SLAM, uses the Harpoon airframe
- |> with an electro-optical (TV) guidance system, with a similar warhead. It can
- |> achieve ranges upwards of 50 nm, and was used with great success from A-6E's
- |> in Desert Storm against targets ranging from bridges to buildings.
- |>
- |> The SLAM is steered by the A-6's Bombadier/Navigator (BN) by means of a small
- |> CRT and joystick in the cockpit. He lines the crosshairs up on the intended
- |> target and the missile flies toward it. This keeps tha the launch aircraft out
- |> of harms (SAM's) way, and can deliver an extremely accurate 500 lbs of
- |> destruction.
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- In the interest of accuracy:
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- SLAM can be launched from any platform that can also handle Harpoon -
- ships, A-6, F-18, B-52G. I believe the F-16 is suppose to be given
- SLAM capability too.
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- The SLAM is a Harpoon mated with a Maverick's IIR seeker (Imaging
- Infra-Red not TV) and a Walleye data link. Range is about 75 miles.
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- The SLAM is programmed to attack a particular point on the ground.
- The SLAM flies a route to that point (the target) similar to Harpoon.
- At a certain distance from the target, SLAM turns on its IIR seeker
- and relays the image back to a controller platform (typically an
- aircraft but not necessarily the launching aircraft). The "operator"
- can simply watch the SLAM impact the target or can send the SLAM
- course corrections. NO operator input is required at all.
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- A typical mission would be to launch several SLAMs at a large target -
- a command&control center, ammo/fuel dumps, etc. The operator watches
- the first SLAM impact, then uses the image from the second SLAM to do
- immediate damage assessment. If the first SLAM did good, the second
- SLAM can be "moved" to another part of the target. If not, the second
- SLAM can be used to re-attack that part of the target. The pattern
- then repeats for all subsequent SLAMs.
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- SLAM would also be good for anti-ship purposes. What if the ship
- being attacked was a sub-tender? As the SLAM approached, the operator
- might detect a sub's conning tower and re-direct the SLAM from the
- ship to the much higer-valued sub target. Harpoon would simply attack
- the largest radar return it "saw". Or what if the ship turned out to
- be friendly? The SLAM could be averted from it, not so other anti-ship
- weapons. The Turk's might have appreciated this feature.
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- TRAVIS
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