Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucla-cs!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: gwh%typhoon.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Intelsat VI right thruster cluster) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Shoulder-Launched AA Missles Summary: Nope. Message-ID: <12011@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 6 Dec 89 02:48:44 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: ucb Lines: 35 Approved: military@att.att.com From: gwh%typhoon.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Intelsat VI right thruster cluster) In article <11927@cbnews.ATT.COM> military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker) writes: [mod.note: A misattribution. That's why I include the extra From: line. - Bill ] >This is a subject which has intrigued me for some time, and has come >to my attention again with reports from El Salvador. Let me put forth >a deliberately somewhat hyperbolic hypothesis and see what discussion >it brings out. > >I hypothesize that the shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missle makes >much of the modern air force obsolete. The major reason is the cost >differential. Secondary considerations are size and portability. >In short, any airplane you can build, I can shoot down for much less >cost and from pretty much any position. I don't think so. I-Sam's have about a one persent chance of hitting in most situations. Economically, yes, that's still less than the cost of the plane, but the end effect is that you just cause attacks to be aborted rather than killing planes. [they see sams and evade, don't some back]. Note that the Fabundo Marti haven't hit anything yet. ***************************************************************************** George William Herbert UCB Naval Architecture [On schedule? at UCB? Yes!] gwh@ocf.berkeley.edu gwh@soda.berk... maniac@garnet.berk... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "And what if I Don't?" "Then, You will die, the Girl dies, everybody dies..." -Heavy Metal |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||