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From: ugoday@cs.buffalo.edu (Abdi Oday)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: RE: rear firing missile (drag chute)
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Date: 26 Jan 89 14:51:51 GMT
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From: ugoday@cs.buffalo.edu (Abdi Oday)


gudeman@arizona.edu (David Gudeman)  writes:

 >>   ... How about a forward-pointing
 >> heat-seeking missle with a drag chute?  When you have someone on your
 >> tail, you release the missile, the missile pops its chute and the
 >> parachute holds the missile (approximately) in place until the enemy
 >> plane has passed.  After a delay the missile looks for a heat source.
 >> When it finds one, it fires up, releases the chute, and homes in on
 >> the enemy tailpipe.   ...


I see one major problem with this idea.  1/2 second after you release the
missle (reminder it is a heat seeking missle, which you said should be
programmed to ignore its locked-on target if it senses a stronger signal),
your tail pipe is only a few feet away from the missle's nose!  

What is to keep it from going up your own tail pipe?

-Abdi O'day


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