I was involved in evaluating a technology submitted to the Marine Corps for guiding artillery projectiles. It was completely useless and would never have guided anything - it included a "down sensor" in a projectile that was rotating at about 10,000 RPM.
I recommended that the inventor come in to explain his system but he declined. Some years later that "inventor" sued the Navy and the Army for not accepting his purported guidance system, thereby "causing him not to get lucrative foreign contracts".
The Navy called me as their expert witness and when I explained the problems with his useless design, the whole court had a great laugh and he lost his suit.
Probably would have helped him a bit if he had ever actually seen an artillery weapon system before and learned how it worked. Or maybe not.
Chainmail,
We must have the same “Poppycock meter”.
These patents and applications are Flim-Flam.
And I actually am an expert in this particular field of physics.