By: sferrin - 31st March 2006 at 06:56
Andreas: I stand corrected, yes it was a typo and and iwas very very tired. If you look at the number of posts you can see that I am far from being a newbie, hehehehe, there are only a few who have more then me.
Anyway getting back to it, yes they did make a whole stock pile of them and I don’t think that it was as experimental as you might think.
Dan: I’d be suprised if they don’t mate, remember our early stocks of Harpoons here? We had to either blow them up or dump them into the sea because they had gone sour.
The only thing I’ve heard in relation to the 100 number is that they INTENDED to field up to 100 of them and have squadron of F-15s on either coast outfitted and trained to fire them. I’ve never heard they actually BUILT that many.
By: Ja Worsley - 30th March 2006 at 00:12
Andreas: I stand corrected, yes it was a typo and and iwas very very tired. If you look at the number of posts you can see that I am far from being a newbie, hehehehe, there are only a few who have more then me.
Anyway getting back to it, yes they did make a whole stock pile of them and I don’t think that it was as experimental as you might think.
Dan: I’d be suprised if they don’t mate, remember our early stocks of Harpoons here? We had to either blow them up or dump them into the sea because they had gone sour.
By: danrh - 29th March 2006 at 13:04
Sure it was. But you wrote “… and used to knock down missiles” (emphasis by me). Probably just an inadvertent typing mistake, but I thought I should clarify it in case some “newbie” reader isn’t familiar with the ASAT acronym.
Really? Seems quite a lot for an experimental program. Anyway, I don’t know what happened to any remaining ASM-135 missiles after the end of the program.
Well coming up to 20 years since manufacture I’d suspect that any leftovers would probably experienceing the same sort of propellant issues that afflicted the Pheonix towards the end of its career. Still the seekers etc would probably be salvagable although one would be surprised if we couldn’t do better by now.
Daniel
By: Andreas Parsch - 29th March 2006 at 12:46
Andreas: Mate ASAT means Anti Satellite and it was a missile!
Sure it was. But you wrote “… and used to knock down missiles” (emphasis by me). Probably just an inadvertent typing mistake, but I thought I should clarify it in case some “newbie” reader isn’t familiar with the ASAT acronym.
Sure the program may have been terminated but what happened to the stock? They had some thing like over 100 missiles in stock.
Really? Seems quite a lot for an experimental program. Anyway, I don’t know what happened to any remaining ASM-135 missiles after the end of the program.
By: Ja Worsley - 29th March 2006 at 12:32
Andreas: Mate ASAT means Anti Satellite and it was a missile!
Sure the program may have been terminated but what happened to the stock? They had some thing like over 100 missiles in stock.
By: Andreas Parsch - 29th March 2006 at 09:19
What is the current status of the ASAT missile that was fired by the F-15 and used to knock down missiles?
ASAT was against satellites, not missiles ;). Anyway, the program was terminated in 1988.
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