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Old 8th Feb 2012, 17:21
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Navaleye
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Sea Dart is a two stage weapon. it is launched by a solid rocket booster which accelerates the missile to a point where its Odin ramjet functions. in the first launch the ramjet failed to ignite and it went for a swim. The second worked perfectly. I spoke the AWO after the action and we could have got two out of four.
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