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Old May 3rd 10, 09:15 AM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history
Pat Flannery
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Default OT, but a spooky concept

On 5/2/2010 10:29 AM, wrote:
As I recall the cold war-winning effect of the cruise missile, it was
the HINT to the
paranoid commies that every Delikat-Essen panel truck was a weapon
aimed at them.
We didn't actually have to build any.


I don't think we ever had a plan for a disguised version of a Tomahawk
cruise missile launcher, though there was a road-mobile version:
http://cache3.asset-cache.net/xc/533...1E70F2B3269972
This little design made the Russians get very nervous though:
http://files.abovetopsecret.com/uplo...-747cruise.jpg


Pat