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Old May 31st 04, 07:09 PM
Paul J. Adam
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In message , Alan Minyard
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AIM 9s at recips?? I doubt if you would ever get a tone.


Certainly would. Even the original seeker (uncooled lead sulphide,
really basic) would track a flashlight or a lit cigarette, and the
exhausts and propellers of 900hp recips are *hot*. By the time you're up
to AIM-9L or thereabouts, you should be able to get a workable
acquisition on a reciprocating engine unless the background clutter's
hateful (and this would be over ocean, in good weather, with the
attacker choosing altitude and aspect at leisure)

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He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
Julius Caesar I:2

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