At 11:57 AM 8/14/01, Gautam wrote:
>I just wanted to toss in here - I'm fairly sure that I can identify every
>major piece of US military equipment by sight. I have no idea what the
>"BAT gliders" you're talking about refer to, and I would guess that you
>have been sorely misinformed and no such things exist.
Didn't Adam West have one of those in the movie that came out back in 1966
or so?
Sometime after he fought with the rubber shark, that is . . .
But seriously, folks . . . Jeroen seems to be quoting from:
<http://www.calebrossiter.com/korealm.html>
A Google search turned up the following additional references to "Brilliant
Anti-Armor Technology (BAT) gliders":
<http://www.us.net/cip/Africa/mines/koreamines2.htm>:
General Gard's monograph also identifies the three most promising hovering
munitions being developed in the near term by the United States: the
artillery-delivered Sense and Destroy Armor Munition (SADARM), the
stand-off missile or aircraft-delivered Sensor-Fused Weapon (SFW), and the
stand-off-missile-delivered Brilliant Anti-Armor Technology (BAT)
munition.(26)
<http://vectorsite.tripod.com/avuav5.html>:
Other MALD variants are under consideration: [�] A variant with a
miniaturized warhead, longer wingspan for improved range and lower cruise
speed, and the acoustic and infrared seeker developed by Northrop Grumman
for the "Brilliant Anti-Tank" (BAT) submunition. This would be used as a
"search and destroy" weapon against mobile targets, such as tactical
ballistic missile launchers.
And a reference to them at
<http://chambersburg.wlmp.com/docsnew/SUPPLY/kbsum.pdf>
which is an US Army logistics (i.e., storage & supply) document that simply
gives a inventory code for keeping track of them in an automated supply system.
BTW, when I was in the Air Force, I was an engineer in the portion of the
USAF Flight Test Center that tests all of that kind of stuff (lots of which
never made it past the test stage), and I had not heard of "BAT gliders"
either until Jeroen's recent posts in this thread.
--Ronn! :)
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