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A prototype AGM-84 Standoff Land Attack Missile (SLAM) strikes its target, a simulated tactical missile communications site, on its first developmental free-flight test. For this test, the SLAM is guided in flight from an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft using a Walleye video data link

A prototype AGM-84 Standoff Land Attack Missile (SLAM) strikes its target, a simulated tactical missile communications site, on its first developmental free-flight test. For this test, the SLAM is guided in flight from an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft using a Walleye video data link

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Base: San Nicolas Island

State: California (CA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: Earl Hodgen

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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Date

24/06/1989

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The U.S. National Archives

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