Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!sun-barr!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: tcs!sparcplug!markk@uunet.UU.NET (Mark Kromer) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: US intercepting an ICBM Message-ID: <1990Oct10.000552.259@cbnews.att.com> Date: 10 Oct 90 00:05:52 GMT References: <1990Oct2.235242.23678@cbnews.att.com> <1990Oct4.012238.11214@cbnews.att.com> <1990Oct8.030534.12102@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military-request@att.att.com Organization: The Pier and Beam Foundation Lines: 33 Approved: military@att.att.com From: tcs!sparcplug!markk@uunet.UU.NET (Mark Kromer) In article <1990Oct8.030534.12102@cbnews.att.com>, writes: >From: texbell!letni!digi!digi.lonestar.org!user1 ("USER1") >In article <1990Oct4.012238.11214@cbnews.att.com> ab3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Allan Bourdius) writes: >>From: Allan Bourdius >>The US Army (as reported by AW&ST) has been hinting that the Patriot >>missile has an anti-missile capability. I recall seeing pictures of test >>Patriot intercepts using a Lance missile as a target. The success rate >>was very high. >I know the F-15 has some sort of missile it can launch at >satellites, but isn't there some other missile being >worked on that is airlaunched at ICBM's? I thought >we had something like that. If I'm not mistaken, it has been proposed to intercept ICBM's with Phoenix missles fired from F-15's. The Phoenix is the F-15's long range air-to-air missle, also used by the F-14. --- --- --- --- ,, @oo Mark Kromer markk@tcs.com \_` Teknekron Communications Systems, Inc. Berkley, CA USA Disclaimer: If these were my employer's words you'd have to pay to read them, but I'll let you have mine at cost - That'll be $.02 please.