"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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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.

See my other reply about using the Russian Glonass satellite navigation
system. The web page for the missile says the missile is equipped to
receive Glonass signals, so why not the shipping container too?

Jeff
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