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- From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: Re: Catching a Tomahawk
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:10:33 GMT
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- From Dan Sorenson <viking@iastate.edu>
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- Won-Soon Lau <engp2065@nusunix1.nus.sg> writes:
-
- >The idea is somewhat similar on that use on the carrier to recover those
- >aircraft which cannot lower its tail hook. Since the aircraft is a much
- >bigger mass than a cruise missile I don't see any reasons why this is not
- >feasible.
-
- An aircraft also isn't doing 500 knots with an active warhead
- when it's stopped by those nets, either. Structurally, an aircraft is
- likely to withstand greater forces exerted by the net than the missile
- will, and at a 50-mile range you need over 300 miles of netting
- and have to hope nobody saw you deploy it or dig your ditch, else they'll
- just program the Tomahawk to fly over it, or under it, or whatever.
-
- The water impact is something I can't say for certain, but I'd
- make a quick guess that impact with water at 50 knots will likely set
- off the warhead. Water is a brick wall at any decent speed. Just do
- a belly-flop from the 10m diving board to get a feel for this. Your
- system may work, but the smart money is on radar-controlled guns or
- anti-missile missiles to take out the Tomahawk rather than capture it.
-
- Now if they were nuclear-tipped and you were Dictator Don, who
- otherwise couldn't get a nuke, this might be a worthwhile scheme. The
- other problems you have when a superpower is launching nuclear weapons
- at you does seem to invalidate this point, however.
-
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