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To: artichokegrower
Video says the missile was guided by the F-18. Great for terminal accuracy, not so good for pilot survivability if the ship or one of the escorts has the ability to do air defense.

Flying straight and level to do guidance is asking for a missile up the butt.

31 posted on 02/09/2015 7:51:02 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69

Video says the missile was guided by the F-18.

Doubt it. F-18’s a chase plane, to watch missile, and shoot it down if it goes rogue.

This Tomahawk variant would be worthless if it needed an F-18 to guide it to a ship target. F-18 would get shot down.

PS. They called it Unclassified. I wouldn’t have. But they are hard up for successful bragging events. There is still valuable information in these video clips.


36 posted on 02/09/2015 9:08:16 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
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