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The Phoenix missile was designed primarily to counter massed formations of Tu-16 and Tu-22 bombers before said bombers could get within missile range of the car
by vonmoltke 7y ago
The Phoenix missile was designed primarily to counter massed formations of Tu-16 and Tu-22 bombers before said bombers could get within missile range of the carrier group. It obviously never got the chance to do that.
- protomyth 7y agoI seem to remember that the F-14 had an optic system for the same purpose.