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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Very interesting...!

I took part in a Digital Division exercise at the NTC in '95 where part of the demo was a live shot of a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) from 'somewhere in the Pacific' to a target in the China Lake test range. The TLAM had a cigar-sized video camera mounted in the tailfins that allowed the controllers to vector it in to the target. The TLAM approached the target on a recon run to let the controllers decide whether to attack, made a race-track circuit around the range, and hit the target on the second run. Pretty impressive. 8 years ago!

HJ
63 posted on 05/15/2003 10:33:33 AM PDT by HiJinx (The right person, in the right place, at the right time...)
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To: HiJinx
Cool! The Tomahawk was amazing 20 years ago and just keeps getting better.
72 posted on 05/15/2003 11:55:36 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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