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To: American_Centurion
A small SAM, larger than shoulder launched though.

What kind? If you've seen hundreds of launches then what kind of missile did it resemble? Not shoulder launched would seem to indicate that it needed a launcher platform of some kind, wouldn't it?

40 posted on 07/18/2008 6:28:21 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

At the time, I thought it looked very similar to an AIM-9. But 12 years later, I wouldn’t bet my career on it unless I had access to the video for analysis.

I’m not saying it WAS an AIM-9, I’m saying it had similar characteristics which gave me a sense of the Chaparral launches I’ve seen.


52 posted on 07/18/2008 6:41:04 AM PDT by American_Centurion (No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
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