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From: gwh@headcrash.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Aaarggh!
Summary: Whoops!
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.033539.4476@amd.com>
Date: 10 Apr 91 05:53:06 GMT
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From: gwh@headcrash.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)


In article <1991Apr9.030305.2122@amd.com> jeff@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Jeff Nanis) writes:
>	Like the header says... Folks, take it from someone who has worked
>on the Tomahawk cruise missile. There IS NO AIR-LAUNCHED VARIANT!!! Really.
>Thus, the A-6E (which can launch smart bombs) cannot launch it. Moving on
>to another minor thing, re the S-3, just because it can carry Harpoon (which
>just needs externally supplied targeting data, doesn't imply that it can launch
>SLAM, which requires the Walleye data-link on the launch aircraft for terminal
>guidance prior to IR seeker lock-on.

	Hate to correct you, but I've seen a number of the TALCM variant,
being launched from A-6E's and various test aircraft.  Just because you
tomhawks doesnt mean you work on _all_ tomhawks 8-)

	And a nitpick, the SLAM needs the Walleye datalink/guidance pod on
a aircraft, not the launch aircraft.  In fact, they were being launched
by A-6es and guided by A-7s in the Gulf war. (i may have that backwards but
don't think so).

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