How's this for a 90 degree turn by a guided missile?

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  • RED
    Very Senior Member - OFC
    • Aug 2009
    • 11689

    #1

    How's this for a 90 degree turn by a guided missile?

    As if it makes a difference.



    The Russians thought that vectored thrust fighter airplanes would dominate air to air combat situations. They were right several years but today the idea of the merge required to ID friend or foe is as archaic as the M-1 Garand. Today, it doesn't matter that a fighter jet can hover, turn flip flops, make 90 degree turns at impossible G forces.

    They could do all those things today and still be defeated by a drone 30 miles away that is being flown by a guy 5,000 miles away and back in the USA.

    Something called "the merge," is not a realistic situation with todays technology.
  • Vern Humphrey
    Administrator - OFC
    • Aug 2009
    • 15875

    #2
    Okay, it launched and steadied on its trajectory -- but it didn't do that while going hypersonic.

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    • Sunray
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2009
      • 3251

      #3
      The YouTube video is about a hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile. The vectored thrust rockets in the nose are about getting the thing pointed where it's been told to go. It won't make a 90 degree turn getting there.
      Oh and the drone has to be close enough for the guy driving it to make the shot.
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