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From: malloy@nprdc.navy.mil (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: US intercepting an ICBM
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.051127.45@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 11 Oct 90 05:11:27 GMT
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From: malloy@nprdc.navy.mil (Sean Malloy)

In article <1990Oct10.000552.259@cbnews.att.com> tcs!sparcplug!markk@uunet.UU.NET (Mark Kromer) writes:

>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.

I don't believe that the F-15 carries the electronic support (radars,
etc.) to allow it to fire the Phoenix; I think that the F-14 had to be
designed around the hardware necessary to employ the Phoenix properly.


 Sean Malloy                                  |
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