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Old June 29th 09, 02:04 PM posted to sci.military.naval,sci.space.history
Pat Flannery
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Default Fate of Italian Polaris Missiles



dott.Piergiorgio wrote:

The basic fact is that if Tito tried something, will be considered NOT
funny here.

Still today we have serious issues with the successor states, mainly
kroatia.


Which brings up a interesting point...would there have been any reason
to put the missiles at sea?
Ground-based Polaris or Alfa missiles deployed along Italy's Adriatic
coast should have been able to reach pretty much anywhere in Yugoslavia
without the need for surface ships or submarines to carry them, and at
considerably lower cost to deploy.
You could even develop a version where the missile rode around in a
launch tube on the back of a large truck, and could be driven around
between any one of hundreds of pre-surveyed sites in time of threat to
vastly complicate an enemy's task in trying to destroy them.

Pat