muller@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Mark B. Muller) (01/11/90)
From: muller@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Mark B. Muller) >I'm pretty sure that the F-101 Voodoo's, F-102 and F-106's were all missile >platforms. They were all designed, according to what I have read, as >interceptors against large bomber formations. With that in mind, I know >the F-101 and probably the others carried the Genie nuclear air-to-air >missles for use against formations. They were gyro stablized with no >active or passive homing gear. The idea being aim at the formation and >let it go. Loosely equivalent to trying to hit the broad side of a barn. Of course, with the Genie it was not neccessary to even hit, as it was armed with a small nuclear warhead. Isn't it good to know that the the US Air Force no longer plans to use nuclear armed air-to-air missiles anymore. -------------------------------------------------------- Mark Muller Undergrad at Purdue University muller@gn.ecn.purdue.edu --------------------------------------------------------