Posted on 02/08/2011 3:58:18 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Raytheon Company and Aerojet, a GenCorp company, completed a kinetic warhead system integration test for Standard Missile-3 Block IB. The test verified the ability of the warhead to detect, track and intercept a moving ballistic missile target in a zero-gravity environment.
During the test, a fully operational, flight-weight kinetic warhead operated on an air-bearing test stand and performed in a high-altitude chamber at Aerojet’s Sacramento, Calif., facility. The kinetic warhead’s seeker tracked a simulated target while the guidance computer sent information to the new Throttleable Divert and Attitude Control System. Once the TDACS received the information, the system fired its divert and attitude control thrusters and maintained aim on the target during the entire test sequence, simulating an actual flight mission.
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Rods From God
Used to work for Aerojet.
That is the most incompetent company I have ever worked for.
Have doubts about any product or service they could possibly produce.
No. The “Rod from God” was a kinetic weapon that was intended for ground targets, not ballistic missiles. The original concept was the HTTP, or the Hypersonic Tungsten Telephone Pole that was intended to be launched on a hot missile at high G and strike it’s target at Mach 35+. It was essentially a 12” diameter by 20 foot long solid tungsten rod with a guidance system on it.
Not quite the same as this...and well before its time.
This is the one with the warhead shaped like a giant boxing glove.
Thanks for picking it up
:)
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