On 4/28/2010 10:55 AM, Pat Flannery wrote:

Yeah, but without info on where it's getting launched from and where
it's supposed to go, the cruise missile is going to be completely lost
on exiting the launch tube.

Although...if you were to stick a hidden GPS antenna on the cargo
container that would keep track of where it was at and enter that info
into the missile's guidance system before launch, and the guidance
system already had the GPS coordinates for the target in it...then the
missile could be programed to just fly in a circle after launch till its
onboard GPS system indicated it was on the right bearing to its target,
and the orientation of the container at launch wouldn't matter.
So you could make this thing go off all on its own with a timer, and
figure out some way of getting it surreptitiously within range of its
intended target.

Pat