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Ring-laser INS still have a drift of a few kilometres per hour. To keep their respective INS in-check, Tomahawk looks down and performs terrain-comparison wher
by dingaling 11y ago
Ring-laser INS still have a drift of a few kilometres per hour.
To keep their respective INS in-check, Tomahawk looks down and performs terrain-comparison whereas Trident looks up and does stellar nav...
The Kearfott Mk 6 that is used by Trident is the successor a line of stellar nav units they produced for the Navajo, SR-71, Hound Dog and FB-111. And probably a bunch of others I've forgotten.
The early models used a sheath of acetate star-chart sheets in a mechanical loader to perform the matching operation!
- toomuchtodo 11y agoI've always wanted to build a hobbyist steller nav system using a CCD and some open source star position comparison software. One day!