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From: tek@CS.UCLA.EDU (Ted Kim (Random Dude))
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Nuke SAMs (was Genie)
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.072310.26184@amd.com>
Date: 20 Apr 91 00:43:35 GMT
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From: tek@CS.UCLA.EDU (Ted Kim (Random Dude))


In article <1991Apr18.032610.22034@amd.com> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>The Navy's "Standard" heavy SAM theoretically comes in a nuclear version
>(again, I don't know how real it is), and Talos, its predecessor, certainly
>did.  

Last year, when the USN decided to retire the nuke versions of ASROC
and SUBROC, I think they also decided to retire the nuke versions of
the various SAMs. I don't think the nuke Standards were ever really
deployed. Mostly, I think they kept around old Terrier BTNs to fill
that role. 

Ted Kim                           Internet: tek@penzance.cs.ucla.edu
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