East meets West

1995-09-06T00:00:00

In what must count as one of the most unusual "weapon" configurations ever seen on a McDonnell Douglas F-18, the US manufacturer has mated a variant of Russia's Zvezda Kh-31 (AS-17 Krypton) rocket/ramjet with the aircraft. MDC is working under an 18-month, $4.7 million US Navy contract to determine whether ...

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