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From: tek@CS.UCLA.EDU (Ted Kim)
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Subject: Re: SLAM & S-3 (was Aaarggh!)
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Date: 10 Apr 91 15:30:25 GMT
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From: tek@CS.UCLA.EDU (Ted Kim)


In article <1991Apr9.030305.2122@amd.com> jeff@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Jeff Nanis) writes:
> 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. 

Just to clarify a point here, apparently the SLAM is capable of having
one platform launch it and another platform use the data link. A Navy
press statement about a June 1989 test indicated that the SLAM had
been sucessfully launched from one plane and data linked from another.

While I am not saying the S-3 can carry the SLAM (I have only heard 
confirmation that it has been tested from the A-6, F/A-18 and surface
ships), not having the Walleye data link would not necessarily
preclude it from doing so.

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