Well, lets see. You offer an ad from a civilian company that uses learjets to tow target drones as proof that the U.S. Navy uses towed targets to test missiles. By conspiracy nut standards, I supposes that passes as proof. By any other standard, you have proven no such thing. Your ad says nothing about the US Navy, shows no US Navy aircraft and lists ordnance used by many different countries besides the US (the Standard missile alone is in use by at least 10 countries I can think of off the top of my head). Furthermore, the target from your ad is not the same as the TDU-34 you presented as evidence in an earlier post.
Bottomline, keep skating.
Rokke,
Hate to go against a former comerade, but he's partially correct. Flight International, the primary easy coast Lear Jet services contractor uses the STI MRT 2000 towed target for USN ships firing exercises.
However, when asked (about 10 minutes ago) they said they had never gone against a Standard missile and only a few NATO SEASPARROW. When they did, they used nearly 30, 000 feet of cable in a crossing target scenario.
Obviously, the concern is getting shot down in the tractor...
A6intruder...back into the reading and lurking mode for now.