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I don't know anything about military strategy or missile technology but I'm having a hard time seeing how a missile making a turn that slow would really be effe
by ljd 13y ago
I don't know anything about military strategy or missile technology but I'm having a hard time seeing how a missile making a turn that slow would really be effective at evading any kind of supersonic defensive weapon.
Also, missiles have to explode to be useful; a safe relaunch would be a bit worthless.
Just to add a pedantic remark, if the missile is guiding itself then it's not a ballistic missile anymore.
- nobodysfool 13y agoYes, it's a guided missile not ballistic so those anti-ballistic things would be useless anyway. The best defense against guided missiles would be to disrupt the guidance system. However, there is technology being developed with the accuracy to allow a missile to use inertial navigation systems in the absence of gps.
- greedo 13y agoIt's already been developed in the 1980s with the Pershing 2 systems. They used inertial navigation, then terminal homing via a radar transmitter.