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To: Talisker
Let me look that up in my Official Guide To Ongoing Secret Naval Missile Technology. Geez, grow up.

What could possibly be so secret about a non-nuclear anti-aircraft missile that there's no trace of its existence on the internet (unlike say nuclear Tomahawks the attack subs can carry or ballistic missiles the boomers carry)?

It was so secret that even I, as a submarine veteran at the time of TWA 800's demise, didn't know about it. We were trained to carry the nuclear tomahawk. Everyone onboard a sub has at least a secret clearance, including the cooks. But they'd keep this defensive weapon somewhere above Top Secret?

Can you see this from my perspective? There are a handful of people posting that US Navy submarine shot down flight 800 who clearly know nothing about submarines. I kind of want to know a few details.

229 posted on 06/14/2016 7:27:19 AM PDT by OA5599
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To: OA5599
Why not just launch it from the surface ship in the first place? That technology exists.

As a Navy guy, I would expect you'd understand that subs have a stealth advantage in certain situations. I'm speculating that the Navy took advantage of that to hook up a sub-to-air missile system, controlled and operated probably by an extension of the Aegis multi-ship satellite-linked area-control system that is already operational and was present and active in a Naval exercise that day TWA800 was shot down.

And you want wiring diagrams.

LOL, can't help ya, bud.

244 posted on 06/14/2016 10:36:22 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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