Talk:Beam riding

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[edit] Abandoned?

I know Israeli tanks had no end of trouble recently with beam-riding Kornet missiles... 89.138.93.171 (talk) 16:28, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

I think whoever wrote the article means abandoned...as a form of Surface-To-Air Missile Guidance, which certainly is very true; notice the mention of the RIM-2 Terrier just after that sentence. None of the SAM's on the market today use the beam-riding guidance method. WikiphyteMk1 (talk) 06:38, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Currently as far as i can find out there are two SAM systems in production that are beam riders The Starstreak missile used by the British army and the RBS 70 Developed by Sweden Startreak has been exported ( in limited numbers) to South Africa, and the RBS 70 has been sold by sweeden to 14 additional countrys. Both systems are a continuing part of Sweeden and the UK's arsenal and are not 'legacy' equipment. Also the Starstreak artical has an intresting list of the Pros and Cons of beam guided weapons as opposed to other guidence systems, which i think this page could do with a version of. (78.145.191.140 (talk) 00:55, 4 March 2008 (UTC)).