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- From: Charles.K.Scott@dartmouth.edu (Charles K. Scott)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: Re: Catching a Tomahawk
- Message-ID: <C1Isxx.8vx@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:10:45 GMT
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- From Charles.K.Scott@dartmouth.edu (Charles K. Scott)
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- In article <C1H2u1.F09@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- engp2065@nusunix1.nus.sg (Won-Soon Lau) writes:
-
- > I hope to see some discussions and even improvement to this
- > scheme.
-
- Well since you asked. I'm not sure I see the point in catching a
- cruise missile. Saddam already has a bunch of AAA, he doesn't have a
- bunch of nets and balloons. Recon photos would soon see the masses of
- netting which would then cause the attacking forces to simply use a
- different attack method like the F-117 and smart bombs.
-
- The point for someone who could be that focus of such an attack is to
- prevent the missile from hitting the target. Going through all that
- trouble (nets, moats, water) presupposes that the attacking force is
- willing to wait for all this preperation and then, once everything is
- in place, attack with cruise missiles, and at that target, not
- something else. This is a lot of supposition. As I said at the
- beginning, I don't understand why anyone would want to "catch" a cruise
- missile.
-
- Corky Scott
-