To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Ya beat me by one minute ;-)
Good additional information in mine, and at the link.
15 posted on
07/12/2003 1:22:07 PM PDT by
FreedomPoster
(this space intentionally blank)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity; FreedomPoster; timpad; hattend
It is really great to see the Tomahawk get to this level of capability. Back in 1980s, this is one of the things we talked about, but didn't put in the requirements because it wasn't technically feasible at the time.
Another thing we talked about was having one Tomahawk in a flight of serveral Tomahawks with a Star-Wars style battle management computer, and advanced sensor systems. It would be designated the Flight Leader and would loiter over the target area as the rest of the flight attacked, do battle damage assessment, and direct re-attacks, or diversions. After all the other Tomahawks had attacked, the Flight Leader would find the O-Club and blow it up by exploding its remaining fuel.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson