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Back at the end of the Cold War, as a strapping lad on an Aegis cruiser, we used to moor across the pier from USS Long Beach[1]. She was rumored to have the lo
by smitty1e 5y ago
Back at the end of the Cold War, as a strapping lad on an Aegis cruiser, we used to moor across the pier from USS Long Beach[1].
She was rumored to have the longest-range kill on record, off the coast of Vietnam[2] using Talos[3]. The reference states ~65 nautical miles (minutes of latitude) or ~75 miles. I heard >100, which may or may not be true (since we obfuscate performance parameters pretty much everywhere).
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Long_Beach_(CGN-9) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Long_Beach_(CGN-9)
[2] https://www.navysite.de/cg/cgn9.htm https://www.navysite.de/cg/cgn9.htm
[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-8_Talos https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-8_Talos
- themodelplumber 5y agoThat's a pretty neat looking missile with the four nose antennas. It was also interesting, given how modern it looked to me, to read that > Talos was the end product of Operation Bumblebee, the Navy's 16-year surface-to-air missile development program for protection against guided anti-ship missiles like Henschel Hs 293 glide bombs, Fritz X, and kamikaze aircraft.[1] So it was designed based on WWII concerns...I hadn't read about the HS 293 in quite a long time, and didn't expect to see a ramjet missile developed in response...