ASALM (Advanced Strategic Air-Launched Missile)

[Yellow Palace]

Worth noting here that by the time the programme was cancelled, a missile from the SLAT/ASALM line was (by default) the front runner for the UK's SR(A).1244 Tactical Air-To-Surface missile. That version was called TIRRM - Tactical Integrated Rocket-Ramjet Missile - with an expected range of 520 to 700 km and an expected in-service date (in 1989) of 2001-2002.

https://www.york.ac.uk/media/politics/documents/yorkindproject/2024%20Report3%20Ritchie%20&%20Walker%20Denuclearising%20the%20RAF.pdf

Standard kerosene is not particularly dangerous, and is used for ship fuel anyways.

Weird kerosene might be of some concern, but there again if it had a particularly low flash point and high viscosity, probably not so much on the safety front. On the 'getting the damn missile to work properly in the Arctic' front, perhaps more so.

 

[Dew]

1978 ad from eBay listing:

 

[Dew]

Martin Marietta ad from AF Mag 1978:

 

[fightingirish]

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[iwantmoresources]

It perturbs me how neither the ASALM nor the SLAT entered production, the ASALM would no doubt had the Soviets shitting bricks if it had entered service.

Well, the Soviets had their own ASALM type project with the Kh-80/ 3M25A/M/N. They would have had had a response at the ready. In terms of shooting the thing down, S-300 would have probably the way to go, and maybe MiG-31 (although that was more a fly high and look down rather than a fly high and look up interceptor.)

 

[A Tentative Fleet Plan]

Well, the Soviets had their own ASALM type project with the Kh-80/ 3M25A/M/N.

Meteorit was a very different beast to ASALM, being a long range strategic cruise missiles used by stand-off bombers and submarines whilst ASALM was a relatively compact SRAM replacement to be used by penetrating bombers.