Fwd: Re: [DS/SG potential] Motion camouflaged missiles

--- Brian Fuchs <FUCHS001@Comcast.NET> wrote:
> From: "Brian Fuchs" <FUCHS001@Comcast.NET>
> To: "Brian B" <greywanderer987@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [DS/SG potential] Motion camouflaged
> missiles
> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 18:03:21 -0400
> 
> Interesting idea, but I'm dubious as to its
> effectiveness.  In Vietnam,
> there were two ways a pilot or WIZO recognised a
> missile attack, either they
> saw the flash of the launch, or the onboard warning
> system alerted them.
> Once the missile is in-flight, the way to tell that
> you are the target is
> that the missile appears stationary.	If you're
> looking at the nose and it
> looks stationary, it's pointing itself at you.
> 
> But if it works in sims, it will work in games, and
> that could be a pretty
> lukrative market.  And the advantage of hiding
> missiles behind one another
> during flight could be very usefull.
> 
> -Brian
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brian B" <greywanderer987@yahoo.com>
> To: <fuchs001@comcast.net>
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 5:04 PM
> Subject: Fwd: [DS/SG potential] Motion camouflaged
> missiles
> 
> 
> >
> > --- Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:
> > > Subject: [DS/SG potential] Motion camouflaged
> > > missiles
> > > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:24:58 +1000
> > > From: <Beth.Fulton@csiro.au>
> > > To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
> > >
> > > G'day guys,
> > >
> > > Came across this in my weekly reading and
> thought it
> > > might interest some here.
> > >
> > > A future generation of anti-aircraft missiles
> could
> > > be made far harder to
> > > dodge by a guidance system inspired by the
> flight of
> > > dragonflies and
> > > hoverflies. The missiles will mimic a strategy
> > > called motion camouflage,
> > > which predatory insects use to trick prey into
> > > thinking they are stationary.
> > >
> >
>
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993870
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Beth

> 

=====
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always
so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

--Bertrand Russell

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