Kevin Brooks
July 11th 03, 07:08 AM
(JDupre5762) wrote in message >...
> >Why were they buying
> >Shafrir (or whatever the name of that early version Sidewinder-derived
> >pre-Python AAM was) instead of buying the latest Sidewinder variants?
>
> I think because the Shafrir had a bigger warhead than the Sidewinder and was
> better able to make a one shot kill than the equivalent.
But that would have required actually coming near enough the target to
do the damage, and having the fuze then work as advertised, and IIRC
Shafrir was none to well known for accomplishing either feat (ISTR
reading that the IDF pilots were none too fond of it).
Brooks
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> >Why were they buying
> >Shafrir (or whatever the name of that early version Sidewinder-derived
> >pre-Python AAM was) instead of buying the latest Sidewinder variants?
>
> I think because the Shafrir had a bigger warhead than the Sidewinder and was
> better able to make a one shot kill than the equivalent.
But that would have required actually coming near enough the target to
do the damage, and having the fuze then work as advertised, and IIRC
Shafrir was none to well known for accomplishing either feat (ISTR
reading that the IDF pilots were none too fond of it).
Brooks
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