air-to-surface missile
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AST 1227: BAe Sabre ASM
AST (Air Staff Target) 1227 was a requirement for a PGM for antitank duties. BAe offered the highly supersonic Sabre, based on the Rapier SAM airframe with a laser seeker. Bill Gunston suggests the seeker was by Martin Marietta and related to the Copperhead seeker. Single shot kill probability...- overscan (PaulMM)
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- air-to-surface missile cold war great britain late 1970s royal air force united kingdom
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