Re: OT: Battleships vs. Carriers...
From: "Imre A. Szabo" <ias@s...>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:30:04 -0500
Subject: Re: OT: Battleships vs. Carriers...
Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
> Imre A. Szabo wrote:
>
> >One quick note on range. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research
> >Projects Agency) developed 11" sub-caliber rounds for 16" guns in the
> >late 1980's. They had a range of 100 nm and delievered 248 M46
> >submunitions. They were also GPS/IMU guided.
>
> Which ones are the M46s - are they the small scatterable ones, or the
> ones used in SADARM (or was it SMArt)? The early date and the number
of
> sublets suggest scatterables, but I always confuse the designation of
> those two :-(
M46 submunitions are anti-personel. They were working on a version with
BATS for anti-tank use.
IAS