On 4/27/2010 5:20 PM, Frogwatch wrote:


You really have to admire the guy who came up with this idea cuz he
sure gets a lot of people ****ed off.

You can see how it probably got started; some country ordered some of
those missiles in their launch tubes, and whoever was in charge of
shipping them out decided that you could fit them in a standard
forty-foot shipping container and save some money over having to build
some sort of special crate for them.
At that point the gears started going around upstairs.
They will still need their guidance systems programed before launch
though, and that will mean knowing where the launcher container is at
and which way it is pointing before launch.
The ones shown attacking the ships can home on them via radar, but the
ones attacking the tanks and airfield are going to need to have info
entered into their guidance system about the flight path between their
launch point and intended target.
In the video that's done by a reconnaissance satellite, but unless you
have access to one of those, this system won't fly.

Pat