On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:02:07 -0700, (Harry
Andreas) wrote:

In article .com,
wrote:

The USAF is considering building a new weapon to go after heavily-
defended ships. See:


http://aviationnow.ecnext.com/free-s...icle=DEMO09135

Shouldn't the Navy be taking the lead on a project like this?

I detect the distinctive smell of marketing-types ghost writing that article.
While JASSM is a joint AF-Navy project, I was under the impression that
the Navy was considering pulling out of JASSM in favor of SLAM-ER, which
itself is a derivative of Harpoon.

IIRC the USN *has* pulled out of JASSM.

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Peter Kemp

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