"Vampire Inbound..."

jason taylor · 07-19-06, 02:29 PM

A few days ago I was playing a nonserious game, to experiment with the controls. I was an Oliver Hazzard. At that time on a whim I got a sudden urge to blow something up-not uncommon in computer games, inappropriate to the subtleties of DanWat of course but not on this occasion. So I programed a series of Harpoons to come back at me. My radar operator kept saying "vampire inbound".
So I am wondering. Is "Vampire" simply a generic term for "approaching missile?" Or did my radarman(no doubt convulsed by fear at having to look death in the face for the first time) simply missidentify it? Is their really an actual class of missile called Vampire?

07-19-06, 02:29 PM	#1
jason taylor Loader Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 84 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	"Vampire Inbound..." A few days ago I was playing a nonserious game, to experiment with the controls. I was an Oliver Hazzard. At that time on a whim I got a sudden urge to blow something up-not uncommon in computer games, inappropriate to the subtleties of DanWat of course but not on this occasion. So I programed a series of Harpoons to come back at me. My radar operator kept saying "vampire inbound". So I am wondering. Is "Vampire" simply a generic term for "approaching missile?" Or did my radarman(no doubt convulsed by fear at having to look death in the face for the first time) simply missidentify it? Is their really an actual class of missile called Vampire?