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From: fcrary@lightning.Berkeley.EDU (Frank Crary)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Air Superiority B-52?
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Date: 24 May 91 19:52:00 GMT
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From: fcrary@lightning.Berkeley.EDU (Frank Crary)


phil@brahms.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:
>It sounds amusing at first, a flying AEGIS platform...
>... how many missiles can an AEGIS track and kill at any one time?
>Surely no more than a dozen or so. Considering how much AEGIS and/or
>AWACS cost, I have to wonder how effective it would be and whether
>it would be better than a couple of squadrons of F-14s with Phoenix
>(which we already have).

Forget the cost of the AEGIS-type system. How much does one weigh? How
much space does it take up? How many crewmen are needed to operate it?
As I recall, the AWACS system, which controls no missiles, fills a 747.
(including the radar crew, that is.) Even if you could put a AEGIS-type
fire control radar system on a B-52, would there be any room left for 
missiles? What type of missiles? (I don't think the SM-2 would fit at all.)

Frank Crary