Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: em31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Andrew Morgan) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Questions about the SLAM Message-ID: <1991Jan27.114834.948@cbnews.att.com> Date: 27 Jan 91 11:48:34 GMT References: <1991Jan24.044210.26312@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Eric Andrew Morgan > 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 The SLAM or Standoff Land Attack Missile is basically a modification of the Harpoon, I assume that it can be launched from any platform that can launch a Harpoon. It can be guided to the target by the launching platform using the TV image sent back to the platform from the missile. There might be other methods of guidance and probably are. I am not sure about the range but recall something about it being less than the Harpoon, possibly they reduced the fuel load so they wouldn't have to reduce the warhead size. Unforunately, there isn't much published info. Eric.