IU

A friend gave me the Haynes manual for Xmas, and in reading it [&
looking at the pictures...] I've realized I know diddly about the IU,
besides IBM made it.

I know it saved the bacon when lighting hit the launching stack, but
for example, how did it navigate? I see it had its own radar; I'm
guessing it interrogated ground transponders that let it calculate its
position to compare with the INS. Correct?



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