"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:11:48 GMT, "Harley W. Daugherty"
wrote:

Also the mission
profile during a nuclear war left a LOT to be desired.

Did it in fact carry nuclear-tipped missiles?

It could carry the low yield AIM-26A Falcon had a W-54 warhead with a
reported yield of .25 kT; the missile was pulled from service in 1971. The
AIR-2 Genie unguided rocket, with a larger W-25 at between 1 and 2 kT, was
also fielded, carried by the F-89, F-101, and F-106. Genie was not retired
until the F-106 left the interceptor force in favor of the F-4 and later
F-15A.


(What *were* we thinking?)

That we were acheiving a much greater assurance of destroying an *inbound*
and much larger nuclear payload than the then-current crop of conventional
guided missiles afforded, that's what.

Brooks


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