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From: gwh%typhoon.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: US intercepting an ICBM
Summary: No Phoenix...
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.051214.273@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 11 Oct 90 05:12:14 GMT
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From: gwh%typhoon.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)

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.

	The F-15 does not, never has, and doubtfully will ever mount a Phoenix
air-to-air missile.  It's missile armament consists of AIM-7 Sparrow models
and AIM-9 Sidewinder models, with occational air-to-ground missiles.
	Even the discussed-but-never-built F-15N (proposed F-14 competitor,
never made it off drawing board) only carried Sparrows.  A plan to upgrade the
plane to carry Phoenix was scrapped when someone showed that it would be more
expensive than the F-14.

Only three aircraft types that I know of have ever carried the Phoenix:
F-14, F-111B (prototype only), and the ?Skywarrior what they were using for
flight test of the missile...


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