OT, but a spooky concept

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

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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
--
"Take heart amid the deepening gloom
that your dog is finally getting enough cheese" - Deteriorata - National
Lampoon

As I recall the cold war-winning effect of the cruise missile, it was
the HINT to the
paranoid commies that every Delikat-Essen panel truck was a weapon
aimed at them.
We didn't actually have to build any.

One of the important aspects of the MX merry-go-round was making sure
that they
were NOT hidden, so the evil commies would be scared, but not so much
that they
launched a general nuclear war.

I don't think we need to go into the potential for maximum scaredness
for the
maximum number of people.

Nils
(not often visiting this group)

On 5/2/2010 10:29 AM, wrote:
As I recall the cold war-winning effect of the cruise missile, it was
the HINT to the
paranoid commies that every Delikat-Essen panel truck was a weapon
aimed at them.
We didn't actually have to build any.

I don't think we ever had a plan for a disguised version of a Tomahawk
cruise missile launcher, though there was a road-mobile version:
http://cache3.asset-cache.net/xc/533...1E70F2B3269972
This little design made the Russians get very nervous though:
http://files.abovetopsecret.com/uplo...-747cruise.jpg


Pat