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To: dsc

dsc - not sure what your link about MIRV’s has to do with my post - one warhead, or multiple warheads, they are ALL still passive warheads, on pre-set targets, that cannot track or follow a moving ship.


28 posted on 03/08/2008 11:30:42 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

Wasn’t there anything in that article about maneuvering reentry vehicles? Sorry.


34 posted on 03/09/2008 1:33:36 AM PST by dsc
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To: zeestephen; patton; Doohickey
dsc - not sure what your link about MIRV’s has to do with my post - one warhead, or multiple warheads, they are ALL still passive warheads, on pre-set targets, that cannot track or follow a moving ship.

Classically, yes. Before we invented and the Chinese copies the idea “smart” controllable ballastically-launched (high altitude rockets with controllable re-entry warheads. Now, the rocket and warhead are both “steered” high in flight, and the flights are so short (<20 minutes) that all that's needed is a target point in range. Essentially.

They still aren't as accurate as cruise missiles, and the target data needs to be up-to-date (15 minutes prior to launch or so) so nuke warheads are assumed.

39 posted on 03/09/2008 5:05:19 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: zeestephen

The Soviets were at one time developing a variant of the SS-N-8 Sawfly that was supposed to be able to target surface ships. I would assume that targeting data was supposed to originate from either an AV-MF Bear or a RORSAT. Radar terminal guidance, but still a nuke warhead.


58 posted on 03/09/2008 5:19:09 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (Leftism is a mental disorder)
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