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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)
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Subject: Re: ATACMS? (What are these "Scud killers"?)
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Date: 18 Feb 91 06:08:52 GMT
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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)


   ATACMS (phonetic "A-tack-ems").  An inertially guided, semi-ballistic
   missile system designed to attack targets beyond range of existing tube
   artillery and rocket artillery.  It's not a 'scud killer', it's a 
   surface-to-surface system.  In my opinion, this will replace the
   Lance (Lance range 75km). 

   Fired from a modified M270 MLRS launcher.  Guided by an inertial system
   which is very accurate.  The warhead is loaded with M74 dual-purpose
   bomblets (submunition).  Each modified MLRS launcher carries two ATACM
   missiles.  

   Not much else is known about it.  As I said before, "Army Times" showed
   a picture of an ATACMS system with the 1st Infantry Division - in the
   Gulf. 


   mike schmitt
                 "Fire in the hole!  Fire in the hole!"