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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: US intercepting an ICBM
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.051148.131@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 11 Oct 90 05:11:48 GMT
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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)


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 thought the F-14 was the only aircraft that carried the Phoenix.  That's
what I heard a Navy pilot say at a local airshow this past Sunday, anyway.
Aside from the experimental ASAT weapon, I've only heard of F-15s carrying
Sparrows and Sidewinders.


Geoff


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