tek@CS.UCLA.EDU (Ted Kim) (04/10/91)
From: tek@CS.UCLA.EDU (Ted Kim) In article <1991Apr9.030305.2122@amd.com> jeff@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Jeff Nanis) writes: > Moving on to another minor thing, re the S-3, just because it can > carry Harpoon (which just needs externally supplied targeting data, > doesn't imply that it can launch SLAM, which requires the Walleye > data-link on the launch aircraft for terminal guidance prior to IR > seeker lock-on. Just to clarify a point here, apparently the SLAM is capable of having one platform launch it and another platform use the data link. A Navy press statement about a June 1989 test indicated that the SLAM had been sucessfully launched from one plane and data linked from another. While I am not saying the S-3 can carry the SLAM (I have only heard confirmation that it has been tested from the A-6, F/A-18 and surface ships), not having the Walleye data link would not necessarily preclude it from doing so. -- Ted Kim Internet: tek@penzance.cs.ucla.edu UCLA Computer Science Department UUCP: ...!{uunet|ucbvax}!cs.ucla.edu!tek