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The original 8-inch SALGP appears to have been called Paveway (from when PAVEWAY was a general term for laser guidance, not specific to the air-dropped LGB.) The 8-inch Mk 71 did attempt a brief comeback in the 1980s, around the same time as the battleships. There's an ad from that era in the Mk 71 thread, I think.Aside: the Mk 71 won't fit everywhere a Mk 45 will. It's deeper by about a full deck and so could not fit in the aft position on the Spruances, for example. And I think it would have displaced some forward VLS cells in the DDG-51 in a proposed retrofit there as well.
The original 8-inch SALGP appears to have been called Paveway (from when PAVEWAY was a general term for laser guidance, not specific to the air-dropped LGB.)
The 8-inch Mk 71 did attempt a brief comeback in the 1980s, around the same time as the battleships. There's an ad from that era in the Mk 71 thread, I think.
Aside: the Mk 71 won't fit everywhere a Mk 45 will. It's deeper by about a full deck and so could not fit in the aft position on the Spruances, for example. And I think it would have displaced some forward VLS cells in the DDG-51 in a proposed retrofit there as well.
