Lost his email addy, can you send it again? ;) Under Reagan / SDI, I remember one of the point defense ideas was the electric gattling guns that would just through up a cloud of lead for the warhead to hit and disintegrate, I know that is used currently by US Army for mortar and short range missile defense. Once in a land hot and sandy I was walking by one of those just in time for the monthly live-fire check, just about had to go back for an underwear change once my ears stopped ringing.
I agree that it would seem to be easier to use an expanding steel mesh of some sort, I know anti-aircraft missiles use that, but perhaps the physics of the closing speeds and the time needed to deploy the steel mesh are such that it wouldn't work. ------------- Max Charleston SC On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Did you forward that to the Brirriant Reader? > > That is seriously cool, this is a really really hard thing to do, esp a > direct hit on the target. I'm wondering if it used any sort of other > mechanism, there was talk back when of spreading sand or some such as flak, > or spreading out a big mesh net once in space to hit the target. Both > approaches would work at those closing speeds and make the terminal > guidance a bit less complex. > > --FT > > > > On 7/9/17 10:40 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > >> Just found this video of the latest missile defense test, cool stuff! >> >> https://www.dvidshub.net/video/529942/enhanced-ftg-15-flight-test-video >> ------------- >> Max >> Charleston SC >> _______________________________________ >> >> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
