Re: Beam Riders was: Aircraft Vs Dreadnoughts

>Absender: aebrain@dynamite.com.au

> From: "Richard and Emily Bell" <rlbell@sympatico.ca>
> 
> > The only beam riding missile that I have any data on is the SA-2
> > Guideline, which uses a 220 pound warhead, or more rarely, 
> > a small nuke
> 
> IIRC the Guideline is Command guidance, not a beam rider.
    [snip ]
> Beam Riding missiles include the RBS-70 (laser beam), and IIRC the 
> AA-1 Alkali, a real first-generation Soviet system. Unreliable 
> memory is sending me signals about a UK weapon called "Blue Jay", 
> predecessor to Firestreak and Red Top, which I'm not sure ever went > 
into production.
> 
> Oh of course, and the Sparrow 1. 

IIRC some of the Russian gun-launched anti-tank missiles were (laser) 
beam riders, too.

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