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- From: Blair.Haworth@lambada.oit.unc.edu (Blair Haworth)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: Re: Air launched tomahawk?
- Message-ID: <C1Isrz.8In@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:07:11 GMT
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- From Blair Haworth <Blair.Haworth@lambada.oit.unc.edu>
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- In article <C1F6tL.KIn@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> John Walker <walker-john@yale.edu> writes:
- >
- >How jammable would this [SLAM] guidance be? Presumably the defender might be
- able
- >to jam the control signal, or force the controlling aircraft to abandon
- >control.
-
- The SLAM datalink (same as the one on the ER/DL Walleye II variant) is
- supposed to have extensive antijam capabilities - that's one reason it's
- so expensive.
-
- >Furthermore, can more than one missile be simultaneously guided? Or must
- >an entire flight of attack aircraft loiter 60 miles out from the target
- >while the SLAMs fly in (at a measly 500 kts...)
-
- They're not under positive command except to lock on for the terminal
- phase, so at any given time n missiles can be cruising, one can be locking
- on, and (I imagine) one terminally homing, maybe more under really ideal
- conditions. Multiply that by however many datalink pods are available
- to the attackers.
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