From: "Robert Comer" 

Probably not many.

- Bob Comer


"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:3e86054b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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