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birillo21 ha scritto:Cruise missile AGM-86 Air to Ground, aviolanciato.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/agm-86c.htm
.... .... .... In the 4-day Operation Desert Fox attack on Iraq in December 1998, the United States used 90 conventional air-launched cruise missiles. When NATO bombing of Serbia began, the military fired between 30 and 50 air-launched cruise missiles targeted primarily against Serbian air defenses. By mid-April 1999 there were 90 to 100 conventional air-launched cruise missiles in inventory. On 21 April 1999 Boeing was awarded a $41,310,000 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for the conversion of 95 excess AGM -86B Air Launched Cruise Missiles to Block I AGM-86C Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missiles. Expected contract completion date was 30 November 1999. If the production line for new air-launched cruise missiles was reopened at Boeing, it would take several million dollars of commitment and funding simply to restart it. Even if that happened, the line would not even begin producing new missiles for more than a year.
Indubbiamente.... Resta il fatto che il "cruise" per definizione, utilizzato in Desert Storm nel 1991, è il BGM 109 Tomahawk...
In the 1991 Persian Gulf conflict, 288 Tomahawks were launched. The first salvo was fired by two attack submarines on January 17, 1991, USS Pittsburgh and Louisville. The Louisville Slugger company gave the crew of the latter special-edition baseball bats emblazoned with an image of the submarine conducting a Tomahawk launch. The honor was repeated during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The United States Navy has a stockpile of around 3,500 Tomahawk cruise missiles of all variants.
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