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Originally Posted by Whispering Death I read that and I still have no idea what exactly we're talking about.
It blows stuff up for cheap, is that it? And does it shoot from space or something? I don't get that "spacewar" part.
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The "space war" junk is just the website subject matter. This is a rocket that was used in tubes mounted under either aircraft wings or helicopters. To hit a target, the aircraft had to aim by pointing itself at the target and firing the whole pod at once and hope you hit something. They were used in WWII on through Vietnam and were cheap. We added folding canards to give it azimuth and elevation to follow a coded laser to the target. It saved Hellfires which was all we had for soft targets when they were meant for hard targets. These filled the gap for taking out vehicles, troops, buildings, grounded aircraft, and such saving Hellfires and Mavericks for tanks and other hard targets.