Re: GMS Air

Perhaps you were thinking of the first gen Hellfire. That's probably it.

Los

Ryan M Gill wrote:

> 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.