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Re: Advanced Guided Missile systems

From: jatkins6@i... (John Atkinson)
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 23:34:58 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: Advanced Guided Missile systems

You wrote: 

>What was wrong with those things?  We dropped 'em like a hot potato 
after the >Sheridan, but the Russians used them up thru the T-90 
(boring old tank that it >is).

Less penetration than a Sabot round, especially against modern 
composite/reactive armors.  Russians use them because their poor 
quality control doesn't allow them to produce quality munitions, but 
guided missles don't take much sophistication.	US's experience was 
that the firing of a standard round would generally knock out the 
optics to guide the missle.

John

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