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1 posted on 05/29/2017 9:37:05 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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Rafael has three missiles in the Spike family, Spike NLOS, Spike ER, Spike MR/LR and Spike SR,

I need work with my math. I count four missiles in the Spike family.

2 posted on 05/30/2017 5:13:01 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Back in the early 1950’s my Dad was working on a prototype Sidewinder missile. One night he took me to the shop building, a large sheet metal room lined with workbenches, tools and what I later learned, were oscilloscopes.

In the middle, sitting on pipe stands, was a missile about ten feet long with a huge fish-eye lens on the nose. Dad took me around to the back end and told me to watch the fins. Then he walked in front of the fish eye lens and waved his cigarette around.

The fins followed his cigarette! Amazing! (I think I was about 7 years old at the time)


4 posted on 05/30/2017 5:50:34 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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