Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!military From: jfb@ihlpm.att.com (Joseph F Baugher) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Cruise missiles and kitchen windows (was: U.S. options against Iraq) Summary: Cruise Missiles and Kitchen Windows--A Test Message-ID: <1990Aug30.025732.28434@cbnews.att.com> Date: 30 Aug 90 02:57:32 GMT References: <1990Aug8.030228.25162@cbnews.att.com> <1990Aug29.014406.7218@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Indian Hill - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 35 Approved: military@att.att.com From: jfb@ihlpm.att.com (Joseph F Baugher) In article <1990Aug29.014406.7218@cbnews.att.com>, jon@cs.washington.edu (Jon Jacky) writes: > > Several postings to this newsgroup have asserted that there is "no doubt" that > cruise missiles could be "quite literally flown through the kitchen window" > (or, more to the point of the question that started all this, through the > window of some foreign head of state whom we wished to assassinate). > > I request that the people who made this claim please cite *tests* that show > that the claimed performance has in fact been demonstrated. As far as "kitchen windows" and cruise missiles are concerned, I remember seeing some photographs in Aviation Leak a couple of years back. They showed a Tomahawk cruise missile approaching a target RA-5C Vigilante sitting in a simulated revetment on the ground. As the Tomahawk passed over the Vigilante, it exploded. A shower of cluster bombs rained down on the hapless Vigilante. Poof, no more Vigilante!!! I think I remember reading in the article that the test Tomahawk had been launched from a submarine a couple of hundred miles away. I'm impressed!!! With such performance, I suspect that a Tomahawk could be flown right through Saddam Hussein's bedroom window. This would only work, of course, if you happened to know where Saddam was sleeping on a given night. I suspect that Saddam keeps moving around quite a bit right now, just to prevent such unpleasant surprises. Joe Baugher ************************************* AT&T Bell Laboratories * "Make it so, Mister Crusher! * 200 Park Plaza ************************************* Naperville, Illinois 60566-7050 (708) 713 4548 ihlpm!jfb jfb200@cbnewsd.att.com Who, me? Speak for AT&T? Surely you jest!