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From: mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Squires)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: US intercepting an ICBM
Summary: long history
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.034105.13564@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 15 Oct 90 03:41:05 GMT
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From: mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Squires)
>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.

There was a program to build an ASAT missile that would be carried by
an F15, although it was not a Phoenix.  The first test launch of an
air-launched missile that shows signs of having ASAT in its future was
in 1959, when an ALBM test bed was launched in the general direction of
a satellite.
>
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