Re: [GZG] Railguns

Dang.  Missed that bit.  (8-)

That's a hell of a control problem.  Whew.

JGH

On 13/12/2010 10:39 PM, Indy wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Jerry Han <jhan@warpfish.com
> <mailto:jhan@warpfish.com>> wrote:
>
>     I read the article -- the thing I don't understand is that why do
people think
>     this would replace missiles?  I can see using this at fairly low
ranges, when
>     you have a line of sight at the target (and anti-air defence just
got a hell
>     of a lot scarier, if they can get this to work reliably) but, I
didn't think
>     you could shoot over the horizon practically with a railgun,
because
>     the trajectory is so flat.
>
>
> You fire an arcing shot and control the round with GPS signals. Or so
the
> article states. ;-)
>
> Mk
>
>
>
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