Another Blast From Out Of The Blue
on 03/09/2015 at 08:25 AM
OK Tony, so where do you keep the Iron Man suit when your in civilian disguise???
Par for the course. As I’ve explained to Doc and Pieper so many times, sometimes you do a post for the pure love of it; a writeup of your adventure in diving deep into a whole new world of information. You spend hours and hours on it, sometimes days. you become an expert without trying to, just to satisfy your own fascination and curiosity. And then you try like mad to compress all of that into a few paragraphs, pictures, and links, in vain hope of getting others to become enthralled. And that’s still too much for most readers who just flick past. Such posts never get much comment discussion either. Such is the 1% of the 1% Rule, the Unhappy Panda reality.
At least nobody calls me a Nazi. Well, not more than once!
I worked for Raytheon for a couple years.
greyjohn, I worked for Texas Instruments Defense Systems & Elecronics Group (DSEG) - before it was BOUGHT by Raytheon.
Drew, are you familiar with weapon “lofting”?
No. I’m not. But that may be what I’m daydreaming about here? Unless you’re talking about the kind of “lofting” that means “hide that gun up in the top of the barn until paw is done a-milkin the cows”?
Lofting is basically flying towards a distant target relatively low and very fast, then tilting the nose up sharply and gaining altitude while releasing the weapon. The resulting weapon trajectory increases effective range while decreasing plane exposure. target designation (for a laser-guided item) can be accomplished via a second plane, ground asset, or the maneuvering planes target designator itself.
