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- From: dave@Cigna.COM (Dave Good)
- Subject: Re: Helos vs. tanks
- Message-ID: <Bzs8uv.LFD@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- Organization: Cigna FIRST - Irvine, CA
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:25:43 GMT
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- From dave@Cigna.COM (Dave Good)
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- In article <BzM9u5.MCy@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2) writes:
- >
- >From eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
- >
- >>From wwo@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Thomas Schoene)
- >
- >>As others have commented, Phalanx is rather too large for this. Some Israeli
- ^^^^^^^
- >>company actaully proposed Phalanx as a land-based air defense system and it
- ^^^^^^^
- >>would have required its own truck as a prime mover.
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- Actually, General Dynamics (who designed and built Phalanx, but have since
- sold that division to Hughes Missle Systems Company) proposed a land-based
- version for "High Value Site Defense (HVSD)" several years ago. I've saw
- several artists renditions and small-scale models of it about 2-3 years ago.
- The engineers working on it called it "Phalanx-on-a-truck".
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- >
- >I saw a mock-up of that in Paris last year. A phalanx /Barak combo for point
- >defence of high-value targets. It was huge. I do wonder if they ever got one
- >sold.
-
- I hadn't heard about this one, though...
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- Dave Good (who used to work at GD's Pomona Division [where Phalanx was/is
- designed and built], which later merged with another GD division to become
- the Air Defense Systems Division, and still later was sold and became part
- of Hughes Missile systems company [who wants to move the work to Tucson, AZ,
- so I decided it was time to get out of the defense biz] -- whew!)
-
- --
- David Good dave@cigna.com
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