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From: baldwin@usna.NAVY.MIL (J.D. Baldwin.)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: US intercepting an ICBM
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Date: 11 Oct 90 05:12:02 GMT
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From: baldwin@usna.NAVY.MIL (J.D. Baldwin.)

In the referenced article, Mark Kromer writes:
>>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.

The F-15 does not and never has carried the Phoenix, which is an
integral part of the AWG-9 weapons system found only aboard the
F-14 Tomcat.  You may be thinking of the AMRAAM (though I have never
heard of such a program).
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