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Re: FT: Missiles and Gas Tanks

From: "Phillip E. Pournelle" <pepourne@n...>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 10:08:29 -0400
Subject: Re: FT: Missiles and Gas Tanks

At 08:51 PM 7/17/97 +0200, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:

>What do you military guys say - can an air-to-air missile run out of
>fuel? How radical maneuvers is it capable of?

	The Standard Missile accelerates up to a set speed on a solid
rocket
booster and then uses the airfoils to use that momentum to maneuver.
Beyond that I cannot say....

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