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- From: eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: Re: Tomahawk cost
- Message-ID: <C1IssJ.8pw@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:07:31 GMT
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- From eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
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- "Sean J. Roc D'Arcy" <bphdarcy@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu> writes:
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- >From "Sean J. Roc D'Arcy" <bphdarcy@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu>
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- >In article <C17vrM.Exy@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock) writes...
- >> It has been reported that the Iraqi's fired something like 100 Exocets
- >> and numerous Silkworms, yet none are known to have hit any ships. If
- >> the CIWS didn't stop them, what did?
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- >Where did the number 100 come from??? Better yet, what was the Silkworm
- >number??
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- I want to know that as well.
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- >> Wasn't a British frigate or such credited with downing several missiles
- >> with its CIWS while operating near that big island near Kuwait city?
- >> Wasn't the Missouri also involved?
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- >Strange as it seems, it seems that is was British helocopters that
- >intercepted the only publicized close missle attack (this may be
- >inaccurate, but I think its correct). Also, I doubt anything ever got
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- >From what I've read the first silkworm was downed by Sea Darts, the second just
- crashed.
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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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