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From: khanrah@hubcap.UUCP (Kevin M. Hanrahan)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Other AAM's (was Sparrow Missile)
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Date: 18 Jan 89 22:33:52 GMT
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After all this discussion about the various performance characteristics
of the Sparrow and Sidewinder missiles, I began to wonder what happened
to the Phoenix missile.

The Phoenix, as I remember, was designed and deployed only with F-14's.
It was an active radar guided missile with a 70+ mile range.  A few
years ago it was being promoted as super state of the art.

Did this missile get scrapped, or if not, why were the F-14's off
Libya not equipped with it?

Kevin M. Hanrahan          
Clemson University          
2LT, SC                      
khanrah@hubcap.clemson.edu    
kmh@cs.clemson.edu