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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: small homing weapons
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Date: 19 Oct 89 03:33:39 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: pierson@cimnet.dec.com
>Which makes me wonder about a 60mm mortar class round WITH SEEKER TECHNOLOGY. 
>We talked mortar-vs-AFV last spring.  It seemed a little unlikely to me that
>a mortar could hit a moving AFV.  Seekers could change that...

In a similar vein, it recently occurred to me that it might be practical to
put a simple, cheap laser homing head in a 70mm aircraft rocket.  Doesn't
matter if the failure rate is significant, because those rockets are fired
in salvos anyway.  Could be a practical way of scoring a lot more hits in
a first-pass attack with relatively cheap weapons.

                                     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                 uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu