On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 19:55:53 +0100, "Keith Willshaw"
wrote:


"Henry J Cobb" wrote in message
...
wrote:
The Air Staff in the UK were looking at standoff missiles in the late
50s/early 60s. These would have been turbojet or ramjet missiles. They
were always objected to on the grounds of 'vulnerability'.

Couldn't they have built something like the AGM-28 with American help?

http://www.boeing.com/history/bna/hounddog.htm

-HJC


They used the UK designed and built Blue Steel

http://members.aol.com/nicholashl/uk...eel/bsteel.htm


Keith



And had lots of others on the drawing board. Several of them making
the AGM-28 look pretty low tech.