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grasshopper wrote:
Has any military experimented with vertically launching missiles from
the back of an aircraft for 360 degree targets?

Think missile sub concept......

Wasn't this one of the concepts considered for the BAe SABA project in the
later 80s? I know there were several with dorsal or ventral gun turrets,
some with dorsal or ventral rotating hypervelocity missile mounts.
Vertical or fixed launch (exiting via the dorsal or ventral surface) could
well have been considered, though there might have been a penalty in time
from launch to impact...

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