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From: wolit@mhuxd.att.com (Jan I Wolitzky)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Sidewinders on everything
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.232403.4346@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 23:24:03 GMT
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From: wolit@mhuxd.att.com (Jan I Wolitzky)
In article <1991Feb20.053506.981@cbnews.att.com>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

> In recent years people have started to come around to the idea that even the
> mud-moving specialists could do with self-defence capability, instead of
> having to rely on the wild-blue-yonder types who are probably off somewhere
> else anyway.  So there has been some interest in putting lightweight AAMs
> onto mounts that don't take up a regular payload pylon.

When an AIM-9 is mounted on something that doesn't move very fast,
like a helo, VTOL, or truck (i.e., as an MIM-72 Chaparral), those
clever little airstream driven-gyros in the rollerons on the tail fins
aren't spinning at launch time.  How does the missile maintain roll
control before it gets up to speed and overcomes the inertia of these
gyros?

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Jan Wolitzky, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ; 908 582-2998
          att!mhuxd!wolit or jan.wolitzky@att.com
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