Just a thought. Wouldn’t “Excalibur” be a better name for a sub-launched missile?
Spiffy! Now, we just need Sol!
The war in Iraq has become a urban sniper battle. An excellent book on the subject is Trigger Men by Hans Halberstadt.
Another solution to the same problem has been used in Iraq. The GPS guidance on US missiles is so good that in some cases our planes have dropped concrete bombs. These bombs obviously don’t explode but they are a little rough on the mud brick buildings that are prevalent in Iraq. In some cases the targeted buildings have been completely destroyed while doing little or no damage to neighboring buildings.
The village elders in the valley concerned - aka Taliban Central - = and the Taliban gunmen firing from the houses, while routinely putting woman and children on the roofs to keep our troops from firing back in defense.
This little baby lets them target even just one corner of a room in a given house - leveling the playing field.
ABout frig*ing time!
They could have fired it from the Crusader
Pity the program was canceled...