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From: charette@edsews.eds.com (Mark A. Charette)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Sidewinder sensitivity
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Date: 20 Jan 89 05:14:40 GMT
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In article <3213@cbnews.ATT.COM>, nak@cbnews.ATT.COM (Neil A. Kirby) writes:
>     his tests and then armed the missile and waved his cigarette around the
>     nose of the missile ( from a few feet away) and watched the little IR
>     eye to make sure it tracked the lit cigarette.  On a working missile it

While I was stationed on the Coral Sea and Enterprise, this method of
testing was used (because it was fun !) but not recommended (:^) . Of
course, this was many (7 or 8) years ago and the test procedure may have
found it's way in the book by now. 8^)

As for the missles being ARMED - I don't think they were armed, just the
sensor and fin motors turned on.

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