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To: aculeus
Tom Clancy Came up with these babies with heat seaker heads on them in The Bear and the Dragon if I remember correctly.
6 posted on 07/29/2002 6:26:21 PM PDT by Doomonyou
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To: Doomonyou
Tom Clancy Came up with these babies with heat seaker heads on them in The Bear and the Dragon if I remember correctly.

Not hardly, the basic idea has been around for a couple of decades. Electronics have finally shruken enough, and the $$ was there, to make it practical. Besides, it's only the dispensers that get the wings and GPS guidance, not the bomblets. They may or may not have guidance. I believe there was a program, SKEET maybe?, that had self forging warheads coupled to IR seekers. The things would drift around on their 'chutes, scanning for targets, then shoot themselves down into the thinner top armor of tanks or other armored vehicles. Just the things for the Yellow/Red Hordes, or originally the Russian/Red Hordes.

7 posted on 07/29/2002 6:42:58 PM PDT by El Gato
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