December 28th 09, 10:50 PM
posted to rec.aviation.military,sci.military.naval,rec.aviation.military.naval
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Fast Boat Threat Faces Hail of Hellfires
On 26 Dec, 08:09, wrote:
On Dec 25, 5:25*am, "dott.Piergiorgio"
wrote:
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the ~8km range of the hellfire and the inherent low stealthiness of
helos on the open sea preclude stand-off attacks against ships above
~400 tons, that is, capable of carrying guns from 57mm up and/or
missiles around the seasparrow size.
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Dott. Piergiorgio.
Isn't that what Penguin is for?:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/agm-119.htm
I would go with Sea Skua :-)
Guy
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