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From: megazone@wpi.WPI.EDU (Brian Bikowicz)
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Subject: Re: Carrier Ops in Gulf
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.033726.4881@amd.com>
Date: 10 Apr 91 15:55:33 GMT
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From: megazone@wpi.WPI.EDU (Brian Bikowicz)


In article <1991Apr10.024432.21134@amd.com> adrian@cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt) writes:
>Can the Tomahawk be air-launched?  I thought the Tomahawk was the cruise
>missile launched from the surface - the one that looks like a torpedo with
>wings.  The missile I thought was the ALCM is triangular in cross-section,
>and has its engine inlet mounted on top (the Tomahawk's inlet is underneath).

There a variants of the Tomahawk for Air, surface, and sub launching. They
all have a *GM-109 designator to my knowledge. The MRASM is basically a 
Tomahawk, although it does not carry that name. The USAF held a fly-off
between the Boeing ALCM and the Tomahawk. The ALCM is the missile with the
dorsal inlet and the triangular nose. (The ALCM won the USAF contest.)
The ALCM is a nuclear deterent, whereas the Tomahawk has many conventional
explosive options which allows its use in wars such as Iraq.

-- 
Brian Bikowicz
megazone@wpi.wpi.edu