CHRISTOPHER,
     In a message dated 09-22-97 you wrote ...
>         What were the Soviets fielding at the time that SAC felt was the
> Snark's primary opposition?  I always thought the biggest thing they had
> in that
> department was the Silkworm or the Styx, but the Snar sounds bigger than
> those two even.
     Snark was to be used as part of the "Roll-back" tactic. It
 was then to be replaced with Hound-dog and later skybolt air
 launched missiles..... To me the hound-dog was just that- A Dog...
 But Strange Mac thought it was great... :(
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
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