Missile guidance for dummies with an IQ of over 240 - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: ftransform
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2012, 07:01:34 pm
content: Now that's a REAL trap for young playersHere is another upload of the same video with some hilarious youtube comments:How do you react to this?I'm actually quite convinced that this was a 1950's CIA plot to confuse the ruskies about how our missile guydance works...

author: T4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2012, 08:45:27 pm
content: I actually understood it ...

author: Jad.z
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2012, 08:50:37 pm
content: Oh god I LOL'd my kidneys out................

author: olsenn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2012, 08:54:21 pm
content: I'll have to build one now

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2012, 09:06:29 pm
content: Quote from: olsenn on April 05, 2012, 08:54:21 pmA guy in NZ was building a gps guided missile.US government werent happy.Soon after the NZ IRD investigated him for tax issued and prosecuted him. (interesting timing)making him bankrupt.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Simpson

author: Jad.z
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2012, 09:19:52 pm
content: I'd love to hear it with an Irish accent.

author: steve_w
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2012, 09:25:39 pm
content: I worked in guided missile maintenance in the 70's this text was in around then but in paper form as part of our training package. I saw it as part of a USN tech order but that may have been a mock up just to add to the joke.It's not really that complicated.The guy in NZ is still going strong have a look herehttp://www.interestingprojects.com/cruisemissile/missilemanbook.shtmlregardsSteve W

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2012, 09:49:00 pm
content: It would appear that missiles are just lying around waiting to be found.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17553150This one was in Harwich harbour Been there since WW2. The locals have been tying their boats to it, someone mentioned it at the local harbour commission's meeting and the bomb squad gets called in and the whole place sealed off.

author: McMonster
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2012, 10:12:12 pm
content: Quote from: olsenn on April 05, 2012, 08:54:21 pmI'm going to propose this as a steering algorithm for autonomous car we're starting to build at my university at the next meeting. :>

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 05, 2012, 10:23:54 pm
content: Reminds me of this brilliant piece

author: Noize
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2012, 10:46:08 pm
content: He just said he could build one for less than I think about $5000 dollars. Caused a bit of hoorah. And do you know that Bruce Simpson is a member of this forum. Seriously he is.Edit: Didn't know he actually built one. Maybe he can enlighten us a bit more if he reads this.Quote from: Psi on April 05, 2012, 09:06:29 pm

author: steve_w
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2012, 04:04:14 am
content: That is the finest comedy ever to grace television, they don't make like that any more.and as for dropping missiles check this out:http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s159345.htmyet again Australia Kicks the pommy arse in screwing things up !!!

author: westfw
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2012, 06:20:24 am
content: It's be funnier if it didn't sounds pretty much (to my ears) like the online cryptography class I'm trying to take."This is obviously insecure and you should never do that." Yeah.

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2012, 06:45:11 am
content: Quote from: steve_w on April 06, 2012, 04:04:14 amAnd the first thing the guy they interviewed said , drum roll:QuoteOnly in Australia.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 06, 2012, 06:57:48 am
content: Quote from: BoredAtWork on April 06, 2012, 06:45:11 amQuoteProbably came off one of yours! No Aussie would stuff up a barbecue!

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2012, 07:20:08 am
content: Na, surely courtesy of her Majesty. The occasional reminder who's still boss in the colonies.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 06, 2012, 07:29:47 am
content: Quote from: BoredAtWork on April 06, 2012, 07:20:08 amFair dinkum they win one game of cricket every quarter century and it's en ought to fan delusion on a national scale.Had an Empire, now all that's left is one cold rock and global debt you cant jump over, hell even the Scots want out.

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2012, 11:20:43 am
content: I think "Datto" was drawing a bit of a long bow in his description of the damage to the engine.I have seen Landcruisers which have been in accidents where the whole vehicle is barely recognisable,but the engine is pretty much undamaged.A car engine is a pretty solid object,& if the aircraft was landing, the "pretend" missile wouldn't have all that much in forward speed,or height.I wonder what his Insurance company's evaluation of the damage was.Note the year:2000If we must include ancient history,the Poms unintentionally dropped a few Blue Streaks out of the sky back in the "swinging sixties" before they got it right/ran out of money!The Yanks managed to lose an Atomic Bomb back round the same time,too!

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2012, 01:16:51 pm
content: Quote from: vk6zgo on April 06, 2012, 11:20:43 amOne? It is a favorite pastime of military around the world to lose nuclear devices or mess them up pretty badly. A scary, very likely incomplete, list is herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2012, 01:43:26 pm
content: I heard Professor Ballard on the radio say that when he found the Titanic he was in fact looking for two US nuclear submarines that had sunk during the cold war in the area the Titanic was and looking for the Titanic was just a cover as there was nuclear warheads on the submarines and they did not want the Russians to get there first. As usual the Americans panicking about a supposed Russian ability which did not exist.

author: steve_w
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 07, 2012, 01:27:18 am
content: After peace broke out in the late eighties a mate of mine was at a tank museum in russia, and asked the guide (a col from the russian army who had once commanded an armoured division) what he thought about the quality of western tanks compared to that of the russian tanks. His reply?Some times quantity has a quality of its own (22,000 soviet tanks vs 4000 nato tanks)

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 07, 2012, 01:31:29 am
content: Quote from: G7PSK on April 06, 2012, 01:43:26 pmIsn't that the plot of a Clive Cussler novel?

author: grenert
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 07, 2012, 01:42:18 am
content: Quote from: steve_w on April 07, 2012, 01:27:18 amI saw a documentary on WWII tanks that pointed out that the German Tiger tanks were superior in just about every way to the American Sherman tank, except in production. They could just churn out so many more Shermans that it mattered less that they were more frequently blown up.

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 07, 2012, 01:49:06 am
content: Quote from: grenert on April 07, 2012, 01:42:18 amErr...tell that to the people inside them?

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 07, 2012, 02:13:45 am
content: Quote from: BoredAtWork on April 06, 2012, 06:45:11 amYou were saying?http://www.smh.com.au/world/sorry-i-destroyed-your-house-us-navy-jet-crashes-into-apartments-20120407-1whn2.htmlDecent sized BBQ happening there too

author: grenert
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 07, 2012, 03:22:26 am
content: Quote from: IanB on April 07, 2012, 01:49:06 amThey're just little plastic pieces on the map to the old guys who send them there.

author: SG-1
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 07, 2012, 06:40:17 am
content: I really do not see that misssle guidance system working properly with out a Rockwell Retro-Encbulator integrated into the system.

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 07, 2012, 06:48:55 am
content: this is where the rocket it should be isnt...http://sg.news.yahoo.com/navy-jet-crashes-virginia-apartment-block-reports-172412988.html

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 07, 2012, 09:09:13 am
content: I read a book by someone who was in control of tank production in the US during WW2 (who I cannot remember the name of) It was titled "the business of tanks" ( or something like that) the main jist was that the production of volume at uniform quality during WW2 was more important to tank warfare for the allies than perfection. The British kept tinkering with design as they went constantly making improvements this slowed up production, The German's produced designs that were so sophisticated and required so much exotic alloys and complex machining, The Russians had the best design but poor quality control. That left the US with a tank which although not perfect was able to be produced in reliably in large quantities.The very first welding plant I had, I bought from my brother in law, it was a petrol driven Lincoln of WW2 vintage, One of his men showed me how it worked, he had repaired the shot up tanks during the war. They were first given a quick hose out and then a plate was clamped on the inside of the hole and they would fill in the hole with weld using one of these Lincoln welders, apparently the smell of roasting pork was overpowering during this process.

author: electroguy
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 07, 2012, 12:03:07 pm
content: lol

author: steve_w
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 08, 2012, 06:26:42 am
content: That retro entabulator is a fake, gee talk about fake transistors, now its fake videos where will this end. I'll post the original on Tuesday when I go to work. I use the entabulator as an icebreaker for training sessions. Funny the number of newly graduated engineers who's eyes glaze over and try to understand.