Re: High Velocity Missiles (HVM)

At 12:34 28/06/98 +1200, you wrote:
>Tony Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> ... I don't know why no one
>> has yet gone for faster than sound missiles. Mount the missile with a
solid
>> penetrator rather than a charge and let rip. Guidance maybe?
>
>They have.
>Avco: BKEP, boosted kinetic energy penetrator airfield attack
munitions.
>Teledyne Ryan: Firebolt, Mach 4, reusable target.
>Martin Marietta & Oerlikon: ADATS Air Defence Anti-Tank System.
>>ps. I believe that the British also have a HVM system, called Star
Streak?
>
>

	I was thinking more for anti-tank work. ADATS and Star Streak
are both air
defence although both were IIRC ment to have anti-tank capabilities. Did
either make it to deployment stage?

	Tony.
	twilko@ozemail.com.au