... What would be a good mechanism for guided bullets? I know one line of research is to use piezo-electrics for small angle rotation of the nose tip around a...
... IIRC, the fatal flaw with the 20mm OICW round was that it couldn't carry enough explosive to be reliably lethal within the desired airburst range. The only...
I've come up with a simplistic guided bullet design. It's a semi-active laser guided dart with a minimalistic analog control circuit. The dart looks like a...
... that precicely is the point .. 8-) rocket SCIENCE is simple .. the physics necessary to land a man on the moon will fit neatly on an A4 page (or a postcard...
FYI. The web version has graphics, and is better formatted. (I lost all the bullets when I copied this, for instance.) Andrew is a colleague of mine, and is...
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/08/03/215924/nasa-plans-armageddon-spacecraft-to-blast-asteroid.html "NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center has...
I have a question about the "what to do about it" section. "...it may be necessary to place a greater proportion of high-level combat capabilities on...
Here's a picture of the design: http://members.cox.net/mechdan/guidedbullet.png I've decided that it's better to balance the fixed fins around the centerline....
I've got vague recollections that there was a nuclear-armed probe designed for a similar mission, but using the Saturn V. F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon,...
Glad to see a few neurons are still firing in sequence! Thanks! F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble,...
I finally have some free time, so I'm going back to the thread from a month ago ;-) On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:12:10 +0200, mechdan <mechdan@...> wrote: ...
While getting frustrated looking for suitable tiny batteries for this design, I came up with a radically simpler re-design that eliminates the battery. ...
... In the dirty parts of the atmosphere, most beam losses are linear. This means that the same fraction of light is removed from the beam regardless of its...
... While some ability to operate from improvised fields would be useful, there's a reason we have airbases -- they are very efficient, and efficiency means...
... The great majority of roads aren't suitable. You need a *lot* of wide, straight road -- even an 8-lane highway would be iffy, unless there was no median...
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... However, efficiency drops to zero if you assume all of your airbases are neutralized by long range missiles. ... The military goal here is defense of...
... I don't know how suitable Taiwan's highways are; it's something they could work on without it being a military sales contract (which is always politically...
... Hash: SHA1 I suspect this might be too easily circumvented to have much widespread battlefield use. I can still see it as a specialty round for snipers or...
... Well, it's a first generation concept--sort of like early laser guided weapons. First, prove that it can work at all; then refine with ECCM techniques. Of...
... the swiss and the germans did that with highways - road basing was something a lot of countries thought about "over here" in that time .. but 8 lanes would...
http://dailyme.com/story/2009050700005355/fuel-deep-space-exploration-running-empty.html Deep space probes that go beyond Jupiter cannot use solar cells....
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