miket@brspyr1.brs.com (Mike Trout) (09/19/89)
From: miket@brspyr1.brs.com (Mike Trout) In sci.military Digest Thu, 14 Sep, 1989 Volume 2 : Issue 96 gwh%sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert) writes: I've added data to George's article, comparing his information to that of "Gallery of USAF Weapons" (May 1984), by Susan Young and John Taylor of _Janes's_. There are significant differences in some cases, and I'm not about to get into a discussion about who's right. I know that the "Gallery" has been caught in a few mistakes in the past, and this issue of the "Gallery" is more than five years out of date. Note that in many cases the data from the "Gallery" refers to a specific model of missile and may not be true for other models of that missile. I've also added a few that George didn't list, at the end of this article. > Sidewinder AIM-9 IR Homing 200 lbs 15 miles Sidewinder AIM-9L IR Homing 191 lbs >10 miles > Sparrow AIM-7 SARH 550 lbs 40 miles Sparrow AIM-7F/M SARH 500 lbs >25 miles > Phoenix AIM-54 SARH/TARH* 1100 lbs, 100 miles data not available as this weapon is not used by USAF. > AMRAAM AIM-120 ARH 350 lbs, 50 miles (to be deployed soon) AMRAAM AIM-120A inertial/TARH 326 lbs, ? miles > Maverick (TV or IR imaging homing, about 750 lbs and 13 miles) Maverick AGM-65A (self-homing electro-optical, 462 lbs and ? miles) > Shrike (ARM (Anti Radiation(radar) Missile, ? and 15 miles?) Shrike AGM-45A (passive homing, 400 lbs and >3 miles) anti-radar > Standard ARM (ARM, 1500 lbs, 30 miles?) Standard AGM-78 (passive homing, 1356 lbs, 15.5 miles) anti-radar > HARM (ARM, 400 lbs, 35 miles HARM AGM-88A (passive homing, 807 lbs, >10 miles) anti-radar > Hellfire (SALH, anti-tank) not listed (perhaps Hellfire is US Army only?) > ..and i probably lost one or three ~ indicates no longer in service ~Genie AIR-2A unguided 820 lbs 6 miles air-to-air, nuke warhead ~Super Falcon AIM-4F SARH 150 lbs 7 miles air-to-air ~Super Falcon AIM-4G IR 145 lbs 7 miles air-to-air GBU-15 TV 2000 lbs >5.75 miles air-to-ground glide bomb ASAT IR ? lbs >620 miles air-to-space Harpoon AGM-84 TARH 1160 lbs >57 miles air-to-ship HVM radar & laser <48 lbs c.3.7 miles air-to-tank Rapier radar/CLS or optical c.92 lbs 4 miles ground-to-air -- NSA food: Iran sells Nicaraguan drugs to White House through CIA, SOD & NRO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Michael Trout (miket@brspyr1)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BRS Information Technologies, 1200 Rt. 7, Latham, N.Y. 12110 (518) 783-1161 "God forbid we should ever be 20 years without...a rebellion." Thomas Jefferson
gwh%headcrash.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert) (09/20/89)
From: gwh%headcrash.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert) >From sci.military Digest Thu, 14 Sep, 1989 Volume 2 : Issue 96 >I've added data to George's article, comparing his information to that of >"Gallery of USAF Weapons" (May 1984), by Susan Young and John Taylor of >_Janes's_. The specific stuff Mike posted was in some cases more and some cases less accurate than what i did. In particular, the weights all check out, but the missile ranges are more accurate in my origional posting. The air force loves to say " greater than..." in describing missiles, and what I used were second sources and Jane's and etc... Is there interest in more than this? We could do a large factual list of everything (prepare it wrt Janes' Av Week PG, etc.) if it's wanted. [A large factual list of everything! Ought to be pretty big... :-) I find well-researched lists to be a very useful part of sci.military. I'd rather not see lots of articles back and forth refining the details, but if you want to work out such a list by e-mail and then post the final result, I'd enjoy seeing it. --CDR] -- George William Herbert UCB Naval Architecture Dpt. (my god, even on schedule!) maniac@garnet.berkeley.edu gwh@ocf.berkeley.edu