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From: jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Persian Gulf Mavericks
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.012941.7447@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 26 Feb 91 01:29:41 GMT
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From: jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
Excerpted from the March issue of the IEEE newsletter "The Institute:"

     While the Pentagon has released some videos displaying
     surgical accuracy of this kind ["feet not meters"], the
     overall performance of the so-called smart bombs, such
     as the AGM-65B Maverick missile, will not be known for
     some time.  The Pentagon termed a mission successful if
     an aircraft dropped ordnance at the site and returned
     to base.  A report in the January issue of the U.S.
     Naval Institute Proceedings says of the Mavericks:
     "Their performance in combat could be a big 'if.' Opera-
     tional tests in the mid-1980s showed that the pilots 
     were able to get a 'lock' on their targets in only 6
     percent of their firing passes.

The article, a roundup of Gulf War electrotechnology news, concludes with:

    A special report on military technology in the Gulf will 
    appear in a future issue of IEEE Spectrum [their general-
    science magazine].  Anyone with comments or observations
    should write to John A. Adam, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Fifteenth
    Street S.E., Washington, DC 20003.

--Joe
"Just another personal opinon from the People's Republic of Berkeley"


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