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From: beef@milton.u.washington.edu (Charles Lasseter)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: US intercepting an ICBM
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.033933.13171@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 15 Oct 90 03:39:33 GMT
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From: beef@milton.u.washington.edu (Charles Lasseter)

In article <1990Oct11.051214.273@cbnews.att.com> gwh%typhoon.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert) 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.
>
>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...

A note on the phoenix being carried by planes other than the F-14.  This is a 
small difference, but one which I feel is important to note.  Only an F-14
can guide a phoenix, many different planes can carry and launch as long as an
F-14 is there to take control of the missile on launch. I read an article 
quite a while ago that related to adding rotisserie racks to civilian airliners
to launch cruise missiles.  While this is sort of a last resort, a navy pilot
I mentioned this to said that you could do the same thing with phoenix missiles.It would not be as accurate, but it would work.