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Re: Advanced Guided Missile systems

From: jatkins6@i... (John Atkinson)
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 22:48:33 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: Advanced Guided Missile systems

You wrote: 

>I think you could put the swingfire launcher in one position, and run 
>cables to a control some distance away, and fire it from there. I 

>heavy, never used in action, and thrown away in favour of newer 
>systems.

I knew it was one of those sounds-good-on-paper-but-kinda-flakey-in- 
practice ideas getting tossed around during the 60s and 70s, along with 
kneeling suspensions and through-the-gun ATGMs.  :)

John Atkinson

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