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In message , Kevin Brooks
writes "Paul J. Adam" wrote in message ... AIWS kicked off in March 1987: IAM went public in 1988 and in 1991 Friedman was speculating about how its accuracy could be improved if GPS were used as a complement to inertial guidance. (IAM, not GAM, was flying before 1991 - my mistake) So we are back to the fact that we have not seen any GPS guided rounds (minus that SLAM sort-of-GPS-guided-but-with-a-separate-terminal-seeker) flying around until the latter part of the nineties. Fielded in 1996 (GAM) and production hardware delivered in 1998 (JDAM) means flying for a few years before that. Flight trials of the GPS Guidance Package for JDAM started in 1993 as far as I can tell (INTEGRATED INS/GPS TAKES OFF IN THE US, INTERNATIONAL DEFENSE REVIEW, February 1993) -- When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. W S Churchill Paul J. Adam MainBoxatjrwlynch[dot]demon{dot}co(.)uk |
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