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To: general_re
So how can you possibly guarantee that a bomb will "enter the atmosphere over a target"?

that's what the little Intel products are for. You give the things just enough guidance and brains to get it to the target you have in mind. Doesn't have to be much. You can get these things to come down in the general area with high school physics and a calculator out of a cracker jacks box. Use the terminal guidance stuff from a JDAM or something similar and your done... or they're done, depending on how you want to phrase it.

38 posted on 08/30/2003 7:36:37 PM PDT by Phsstpok
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To: Phsstpok
that's what the little Intel products are for. You give the things just enough guidance and brains to get it to the target you have in mind

Well, yeah, but that's not what I'm getting at. Hitting the target is fine, but I want to know how you do it without arcing the bomb through someone else's airspace. If I drop a guided bomb from a low-earth orbit, and target, say, Switzerland, it's going to enter the atmosphere and pass through the airspace of several other countries long before it hits the target, if I just let it glide down to the ground. So how am I supposed to prevent that?

51 posted on 08/30/2003 7:57:38 PM PDT by general_re (Today is a day for firm decisions! Or is it?)
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