From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Article I read described it as locking on to the largest target it
sees/finds after traveling a certain distance, and runs 25-50 feet off the
surface, so it ran under all the radar screens.

The real question, is how many do they still have?

--
Glenn M.


"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:3e860010$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >It has only a 85 km range.
>
> I read 105km, but that might be for newer ones.
>
> >The strange
> > thing about this attack is that the Silkworm is an anti-ship missile.
>
> You use what you've got. Targeting's got to be way different though!
>
> - Bob Comer
>
>
>
> "Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
> news:MPG.18efbd7f2025d4d598b483{at}news.barkto.com...
> > Out of darkness, Robert Comer says...
> > > > What about the one they used on Kuwait city today, was that a UN
> approved
> > > > missile?
> > >
> > > That was supposedly a Chinese Silkworm. Gosh, I wonder when they got
> that
> > > and how, and it's supposedly within their range limitations. Not sure
> about
> > > type, though, it's a cruise missile type weapon and I don't know the
> rules
> > > on that.  It's quite a deadly weapon, flying to low for radar to
track.
> >
> > A Silkworm would match the fragment I saw. It has only a 85 km range.
The
> strange
> > thing about this attack is that the Silkworm is an anti-ship missile.
> >
>
>

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