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