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From hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)

In article <C1D8qt.A92@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes: 
|> In article <C19ns2.330@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Brian Douglass <anasaz!briand@anasazi.com> writes:
|> 
|>>Also, back to fixed targets, there is another version of the TLAM that has
|>>cluster munitions instead of a fixed warhead.  
|>
|> This explains the cruise missile they were using for "smart weapon"
|> research - basically something with a brain sophisticated enough to
|> loiter above a battlefield and recognize enemy armor. When an enemy
|> has been recognized it attacked using cluster bombs. This was, I be-
|> live, in Nova on PBS.
|> 
|> What happens to the missile afterwards? I don't see why it can't be
|> programmed to turn around again and fly home for retrieval/reuse -
|> and if the range is too far, there would be a self-destruct option,
|> or it could be used without explosives on a second target. 

 Typically, they would do one of the following after dispensing
 their load of submunitions:

    Nose over and auger in.

    Nose over and attack, if dispension based upon detection.

    Become aerodynamically unstable and crash.


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