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From: dela@ee.rochester.edu (Del Armstrong)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: ATACMS? (What are these "Scud killers"?)
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Date: 15 Feb 91 07:24:32 GMT
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From: dela@ee.rochester.edu (Del Armstrong)

The Feb 11 issue of Newsweek has a little box on 
Page 6 which talks about:

"... A new weapon in the hunt for mobile Scud missile 
launchers in southern Iraq and Kuwait. Defence 
sources say 50 Army Tactical Missle System (ATACMS)
rockets have been sent to the Saudi border. When
US radar planes pick up the Scud trajectory, 
the launcher's coodinates are radioed to ATACMS,
which can file a missle at the Scud site in 
minutes. ATACMS accuracy is 'awesome', says 
a defense source."

Just what is this beastie? Could somebody
summarize for us what the capabilities of
this "system" is, and how it achives its "awesome"
accuracy.

	Del Armstrong

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