Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bu.edu!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Questions about the SLAM Message-ID: <1991Jan24.044210.26312@cbnews.att.com> Date: 24 Jan 91 04:42:10 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 16 Approved: military@att.att.com From: "J. Taggart Gorman" The other day on the news, the reporter mentioned that the US forces were using weapons not even assigned names yet. Today I saw the pictures on TV of a SLAM doing just that into a building of some kind. I assume that the SLAM and the above mentioned 'undesignated' weapons are of the same group? Does anyone have any data on the SLAM? First, what does it stand for? Surface Launched Attack Missile???? Second, it is really just a modified Harpoon? Was the payload reduced because of the weight of a TV seeker head? Can it be fired from any platform cleared for the Harpoon? Ie... A-6, submarines (how would they select the target?), surface ships? Questions, questions. Answers? J. Taggart Gorman