Weapon plan
West Germany and the United States will develop a new weapon to defend N.A.T.O. ships against seaskimming missiles, the Munich-based aerospace comopany, Messerschmidtt-Boelkow-Blohm GmbH says. The ship-to-air weapon, known as the rolling airframe missile system, is intended to knock out antiship missiles such as the French-built Exocet used by Argentinan pilots in. the Falklands conflict with Britain and by Iraq against naval targets in the Gulf war. M. 8.8. said its three equal partners in the West German share of the project were A.E.G.-Telefunken AG, Diehl GmbH of Nuremberg, Bodenseewerk Geraetetechnik GmbH, grouped in a new consortium called RAM-System GmbH. The United States partner is General Dynamics Corporation.—Munich.
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Press, 7 February 1985, Page 31
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