The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Makes me remember when I was a 2LT back in the mid-1970s, I heard a SSG explaining (heh!) to a trainee what warrant officers did. The trainee thought WO's had a great job, but the SSG expained that they were really OBMM (On-Board Missile Mechanics). They would, the SSG said, hop on an ICBM to make sure it kept to the correct path and had no malfunctions on the way to the USSR, and parachute off as the missile was reaching its final approach. The trainee's eyes kept getting bigger and bigger, and my "don't laugh and screw this up" was being sorely tested. Again, heh!
I still remember a junior high school trip through Rockwell guidance plant (the reason why my area is on Soviet nuclear targeting map). This is in the mid '80s and they're just phasing the 50-60 era inertia guidance gear with optical diffraction gears. Not sure what we're currently using in our current system now...
When I said inertia guidance, I mean the old gear and spring version. The optical diffraction ones is the one with 3 brick of prism where laser is shined through on on facet, bounced through 2 mirrors inside the prism and you calculate the movement through the sensor on the third facet. the 3 prisms combined to take into account all 3 axis.
Notice that it wasn't until the 1:25 mark that the narrator ever mentions "where [the missile] should be."
ReplyDeleteClear as mud!
ReplyDeleteI think that is the guy that taught me ADF approaches
ReplyDeleteWhy do I feel like I'm back in boot camp?
ReplyDeleteMilitary intelligence? It's perfectly clear to me.
ReplyDeleteWho's on first, what's on second and I don't know's on third.
ReplyDeleteMade more since than some of the stuff taught on submarines (like navigation)
ReplyDeleteI believe that Rockwell Automation version of missile guidance.
ReplyDelete(re: turboencabulator)
I guess its good that it doesn't head for where it was, then that wouldn't be an is anymore.
ReplyDeleteObviously another alumni of the Retro Encabulator Development Team.
ReplyDeleteMakes me remember when I was a 2LT back in the mid-1970s, I heard a SSG explaining (heh!) to a trainee what warrant officers did. The trainee thought WO's had a great job, but the SSG expained that they were really OBMM (On-Board Missile Mechanics). They would, the SSG said, hop on an ICBM to make sure it kept to the correct path and had no malfunctions on the way to the USSR, and parachute off as the missile was reaching its final approach. The trainee's eyes kept getting bigger and bigger, and my "don't laugh and screw this up" was being sorely tested. Again, heh!
ReplyDeleteI still remember a junior high school trip through Rockwell guidance plant (the reason why my area is on Soviet nuclear targeting map). This is in the mid '80s and they're just phasing the 50-60 era inertia guidance gear with optical diffraction gears. Not sure what we're currently using in our current system now...
ReplyDeleteWhen I said inertia guidance, I mean the old gear and spring version. The optical diffraction ones is the one with 3 brick of prism where laser is shined through on on facet, bounced through 2 mirrors inside the prism and you calculate the movement through the sensor on the third facet. the 3 prisms combined to take into account all 3 axis.
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