Re: Iran/Syria to get MiG-31?

In message <1182386247.159732.133150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, banmilk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes
better question: Any American CV against the SUNBURN missle.

Hawkeye picks up the launch platform at 250+ miles, giving a hundred-plus miles before the Sunburn can even be launched.

Once away, it's a five-ton supersonic missile with a radar and IR signature roughly on a par with a Saturn 5's first-stage booster and a 1980-vintage seeker.

Sunburn's kinematically impressive but it's also getting on for thirty years old. There are newer and more frightening threats around, but they aren't proliferating: it's sometimes worth asking why.


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The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its
warriors, will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done
by fools.
-Thucydides


Paul J. Adam - mainbox{at}jrwlynch[dot]demon(dot)co<dot>uk
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