Re: GMS Air

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Los wrote:

> What part of the term "fire and forget" don't you understand? You
don't have to paint
> the target for it's entire flight you only have to paint it
momentarily for lock on
> either with laser or millimeter wave	fire control radar (AGM114IIR).
Hence you have

I've never understood that hellfire was fire and forget. It was my 
impression that it could be lauched from way back (8 klicks) by another 
helo and lobbed towards a target area in a set of ripples. Individual 
designators that were coded could then designate targets. I was not of 
the impression that it was cued to a target and then the designator
could 
switch off. Then it would be more of the genra of a optically or IIR 
missile. 

I guess I'm going to have to trudge across CNN center to the library for

a look at the JANES volumes...

> Yes that is what the sentence above (Cut off in your quote)
acknowledged.

Sorry, I've been over whelmed a bit with mail of late....

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