Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!wanttaja From: wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: warplanes (arming AWACS) Message-ID: <471@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 13:29:14 EST Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.471 Posted: Sat Mar 2 13:29:14 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 20:14:15 EST References: <750@amdcad.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 24 > Seems like everyone here wants to talk about improving their flying > technique. Does anyone want to talk about warplanes and dogfights > and such? Questions like, wouldn't an AWACS with a bunch of Phoenixes > (which are reputed to have a range of 100 miles) be able to control > the sky even against F15s? Odd you should mention that. I saw some of the output from an unclassified study, here at Boeing, where an armed AWACS 747SP was examined as a fleet defense aircraft. It had an AWACS rotodome on top, and two rotating missile launchers (a la bomb bay in B-1) mounted internally fore and aft, each with 18 Phoenix missiles. This would give it the firepower of six F-14s, in a mission where maneuverability is not critical (although what it would do agains Libyan SU-22s is anyone's guess :-) ). Never saw any of the data that resulted from the study, just happened upon an extra drawing on someone's desk and asked about it. The folks at the commercial aircraft division just love it when we at BAC come up with another use for their aircraft... witness the mini-shuttle air-launched from a 747, etc... Ron Wanttaja (ssc-vax!wanttaja) "Faith, sir, 'tis true... you have the looks and manners of a hangman..."