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From: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Sidewinder !!!
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Date: 4 Jan 90 04:25:11 GMT
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From: att!utzoo!henry
>From: mmm@cup.portal.com
>What has me confused is the last photo in the article.  It shows a
>Sidewinder being loaded on an F-16, and this missile seems NOT to have
>any rollerons.  Could this be an air-to-ground version, or a version
>for practice (the article said rollerons were only needed for stability
>at high altitude)?

As far as I know, all Sidewinders have rollerons.  It might be a practice
dummy.  There are no air-to-ground Sidewinders, with the marginal exception
of Sidearm (which is a small anti-radar missile, a rebuild of an old radar-
guided Sidewinder variant).

                                     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                 uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu