Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: adrian%cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK (Adrian Hurt) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Lance missile Message-ID: <7020@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 1 Jun 89 03:09:07 GMT References: <6960@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland Lines: 29 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Adrian Hurt >(The Lance has fins, so I would not expect it to spin.) The Lance is spin-stabilised in flight by the expulsion of propellant gases through canted vents in the missile body. [mod.note: Then why the fins ? - Bill ] >On the same subject, does the Lance have guidance, or is it just a >point-and-shoot type weapon? (The fins appear to be attached just prior >to launching, so I doubt they are controlled by a guidance mechanism.) It does have guidance, but it's inertial guidance. >How big a warhead does it have? Either a 212kg nuclear warhead M234 10- to 100-kiloton optional yield warhead, a 454kg M251 cluster munitions warhead, or a training dummy. (How does an optional yield warhead work, anyway?) "Keyboard? How quaint!" - M. Scott Adrian Hurt | JANET: adrian@uk.ac.hw.cs UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!adrian | ARPA: adrian@cs.hw.ac.uk