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To: zeestephen

No simple answer.

It’s possible to design smart munitions (Copperhead, Excalibur) that can take the massive acceleration in being fired in a 155 mm cannon. A full blown computer-sensor-guidance package with foldable steerable fins is not a trivial exercise but it can and has been done.

As you noted timing is everything! Releasing the payload a microsecond off would be a disaster! Also a challenge, and exactly how it’s done is beyond my ken. My ‘mature’ computer has a 2.8 GHz processor, that’s one clock cycle every 0.36 nanoseconds, about 3,000 decisions per microsecond...


13 posted on 11/10/2021 2:52:01 AM PST by null and void (The Washington DC Swamp, Where Bottom Feeders Are Apex Predators!)
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To: null and void

Any idea on the acceleration with this type of launch? Whatever they launch would be subjected to a sustained high g-load.


17 posted on 11/10/2021 10:50:09 AM PST by phormer phrog phlyer
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