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From: fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Carrier Ops in Gulf
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.033744.4964@amd.com>
Date: 10 Apr 91 17:53:50 GMT
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From: fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)


>From: adrian@cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt)
>
>In article <1991Apr6.021133.14701@amd.com> v059l49z@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>>I've heard that the medium range version of Tomahawk for A-6's and that type
>>of plane was cancelled.
>
>	[The Tomahawk cannot be air-launched, seems to be the
>	 definitive answer.  --CDR]

I have a couple of books/magazines at home that have the same picture of a
Tomahawk being dropped from an A-6.

The missile is bright red, so I suppose it was a picture of a test firing,
not that the air-launched Tomahawk was ever/will ever be fielded.

	[Things that look very much like a Tomahawk can be air-launched, 
	 seems to be the definitive answer. :-)  --CDR]