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From: ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Harpoon:  Improper use of Harpoons?
Keywords: blowing up airfields
Message-ID: <186@victoria.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 91 05:51:06 GMT
References: <21803@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <21803@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4586c@prism.gatech.EDU (WILLETT,THOMAS CARTER) writes:
>I have found it extremely convenient to use harpoon anti-ship missiles
>against airfields and port facilities.  their nice 60 mile range lets
>you unload before getting into range of the anti-aircraft batteries.  then
>next best and actually appropriate ordnance are the HARM missiles with only
>a 40mi range so you get blown away.  Has anybody else engaged in this 
>possibly immoral and probably unrealistic use of harpoons and do you think
>it is sporting?

Yes, I find it convenient too.  You can't fire poons at bases, but you can
fire the SLAM, a land attack variant with a walleye guidance system slapped
on the front.  You also can't fire TASMs (Tomahawk Anti Ship Missile) at land
targets, or TLAM-C's (Tomahawk Land Attack Missile-Conventional) at ships.
Sigh.

Is this sporting?  I think it is.  If a Kirov fires a SA-N-6 at me at 40 nm
when I am at high, fine.  But if he (Russian ships are he, or it) fires
one at me and then I go down below the RADAR horizon, and he doesn't have a
chopper up to guide it (that's why God created Tomcats...), I'll use my poons
against his bases.  As for the poon vs HARM problem, in NACV (the second
battleset), HARMs have a range of 70nm.  Problem solved.

Ah, NACV.  A Baku class carrier (new version of Kiev) once fired 16 SA-N-9's
at a bunch of my missiles at the same time.  I don't think so.  Guidance?
What's that?

And then there are the times that my Tomcats turn and run after firing Phoenixes
at FORGERS(!) at 80nm...sigh.  That Forger might chase it down with it's
4nm range missiles...better not close...


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Ted Woodward (ted@cs.utexas.edu)

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