home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: alt.current-events.somalia
- Path: sparky!uunet!acd4!HDFS1!jbii
- From: jbii@HDFS1.acd.com ( John O. Bell II )
- Subject: Re: WAR IN BOSNIA!!!! (and a question about anti-radiation missiles)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.184033.2274@acd4.acd.com>
- Summary: this is what they are...
- Sender: jbii@hdfs1.acd.com (John O. Bell II)
- Organization: Applied Computing Devices, Inc., Terre Haute IN
- References: <BzF3Ju.K69@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Dec18.065834.11262@netcom.com> <BzH5sI.6nw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:40:33 GMT
- Lines: 14
-
- In article <BzH5sI.6nw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gtao@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Greg ) writes:
- >What the hell is an "anti-radiation missile!?!"
-
- An anti-radiation missile is a missile which is used to take out enemy radar
- installations. It does this by homing in and locking onto the source of the
- radar emissions. The purpose of this missile is to make ground defense units
- think twice before they irradiate the sky to look for enemy aircraft. These
- missiles are quite tricky; if you detect one coming at you and shut your
- radar off, it memorizes the heading from which it last detected emissions
- and continues on its way to the target. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
-
- John Bell
- Applied Computing Devices, Inc.
- jbii@hdfs1.acd.com
-