Re: Airborne lasers
From: Mary Shafer (miliff_at_qnet.com)
Date: 11/20/04
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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:06:25 -0800
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:59:13 -0600, "Christopher M. Jones"
<christopher.m.jones@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ian Stirling wrote:
> > In sci.space.policy Christopher M. Jones <christopher.m.jones@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>These laser guided rounds would hit the missile, not the ABL.
> >
> > You illuminate the ABL, with a coded laser beam, and they home on that.
> > The laser also carries information about the vector of the target, to help
> > out.
>
> They already have laser guided SAMs.
Don't you mean AGMs or smart bombs? I thought SAMs were radar-guided,
which is why we use HARMs when we do SEADS. At least the big ones,
although the little short-range ones are IR trackers.
Mary
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