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- From: Blair.Haworth@lambada.oit.unc.edu (Blair Haworth)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: Re: Tomahawk cost
- Message-ID: <C1IsMu.8Fw@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:04:06 GMT
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- From Blair Haworth <Blair.Haworth@lambada.oit.unc.edu>
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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:
- >
- >>Also, back to fixed targets, there is another version of the TLAM that has
- >>cluster munitions instead of a fixed warhead. It's typical attack profile is
- >>against targets that you want to maintain area denial, ala, an airfield.
- >>Let one fly the length of a runway spitting out cluster bombs, and it
- >>will take the enemy quite a while to clear the strip, by which time you
- >>should be able to crater and cluster again.
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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.
-
- That's more or less what happens (not retrieval: no one wants to give up
- warload for a recovery system and the engine is designed to be a throwaway
- in any case). The TLAM-D[ispenser] missile can attack up to three targets
- with its load of - I think - 166 submunitions, the same Combined Effects
- Munitions used in the Air Force Tactical Munitions Dispenser. After that,
- what's left hits a fourth target.
-
- I wonder if that's what hit the Al-Rashid?
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