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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)
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Subject: Re: Sidewinders on everything
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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)

> From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)

> In recent years people have started to come around to the idea that even the
> mud-moving specialists could do with self-defence capability, instead of
> having to rely on the wild-blue-yonder types who are probably off somewhere
> else anyway.  So there has been some interest in putting lightweight AAMs
> onto mounts that don't take up a regular payload pylon.
 
  The Army's Chaparral fires a Sidewinder 1C modifed for ground launch.
  The Chaparral is mounted on a full tracked carrier (M113 variant).
  The turret-pedastal carries four ready-missiles.   The system, fielded
  in 1969, is found in the Air Defense Battalion of a division - and is
  usually employed in composite batteries with the Vulcan airdefense gun.

  Apparently, other SAM systems in the hands of the Army, like Stingers,
  were developed with their own missile - not a modified AAM.  



  mike schmitt

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