Re: Advanced Guided Missile systems

On  3 Jul 98 at 22:00, John Atkinson wrote:

> You wrote: 
> 
> >OTH GMS
> 
> I saw on someone's home page rules for indirect fire GMSs.  Didn't
> the old British Swingfire have something like this capability?  

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 
think the intention was to prevent giving away your true position by 
following the smoke trails back. 
I seem to remember that you could get swingfire in double packs, they 
launched from a box as I vaguely remember, were rather big, 
heavy, never used in action, and thrown away in favour of newer 
systems.
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