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By: 30th August 2016 at 06:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I was reading this article about wind correction using lidar.Could that kind of technology be used on planes? Could the targetting pods do something like that?
Imagine the gun or dumb bombs being accurate enough to be used from medium altitude with the almost the same accuracy as guided munitions. At least from beyond the range and altitude that MANPADS can reach.
Or we can just use guided mutions , APKWS likely very cheap IMHO
By: 30th August 2016 at 09:46 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Guided Munitions Compared to Unguided Munitions
Although only 8 percent of the munitions used against planned targets
were guided, they represented approximately 84 percent of the total cost of munitions.
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?126574-GAO-summary-of-Desert-Storm
By: 30th August 2016 at 11:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Or we can just use guided mutions , APKWS likely very cheap IMHO
I think they want to get the APKWS cost to about $10000. It's a good low cost guided munition but every air force has stock piles of dumb bombs.
I was wondering if perhaps an burst on height type of fuze could be used on dumb bombs to increase their lethal range against soft targets. Combine the precision improvement due to the wing correction and the air burst and it would be possible to destroy soft targets at very low cost when colateral damage is not a concern.
By: 30th August 2016 at 18:07 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
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I was wondering if perhaps an burst on height type of fuze could be used on dumb bombs to increase their lethal range against soft targets. Combine the precision improvement due to the wing correction and the air burst and it would be possible to destroy soft targets at very low cost when colateral damage is not a concern.
Already been done by Russia.
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By: Hotshot - 29th August 2016 at 09:42
I was reading this article about wind correction using lidar.
Could that kind of technology be used on planes? Could the targetting pods do something like that?
Imagine the gun or dumb bombs being accurate enough to be used from medium altitude with the almost the same accuracy as guided munitions. At least from beyond the range and altitude that MANPADS can reach.