web@applga.aa.cad.slb.com (William Bulley) (02/04/91)
From: web@applga.aa.cad.slb.com (William Bulley) 1.) Today CNN had ITN video of cruise missles low over Baghdad. It looked like the missles were jinking to avoid anti-aircraft artillary. Could they be programmed to do this once they were over the city? 2.) Gun sight videos on CNN the night before showed aircraft (F-117?) taking out several Iraqi bridges. The IR images of the bridges seemed to be very stable (i.e., not much relative ground motion) not unlike video from a helicopter. The weapons platform must have been moving at a high rate of speed, but then why does the bridge image remain so stable? A good comparison (with lots of relative ground motion) would be the video shots of buildings being destroyed shown during the first few days of the war. -- William Bulley DOMAIN: web@aa.cad.slb.com Schlumberger CAD/CAM UUCP: {sharkey,hela,lokkur}!applga!web 4251 Plymouth Road Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 MaBell: (313) 995-6211
fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) (02/05/91)
From: fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) In article <1991Feb4.071724.23309@cbnews.att.com>, web@applga.aa.cad.slb.com (William Bulley) writes: > > > From: web@applga.aa.cad.slb.com (William Bulley) > 1.) Today CNN had ITN video of cruise missles low over Baghdad. It looked > like the missles were jinking to avoid anti-aircraft artillary. Could > they be programmed to do this once they were over the city? Are you sure that the Tomahawk was jinking? If the video camera was being handheld, it would look like the missile was jumping about quite a bit even if the cameraman was good and steady (unless he was using a Steadicam). -- ------------ The only drawback with morning is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day. ------------
page@cod.nosc.mil (Ward C. Page) (02/06/91)
From: page@cod.nosc.mil (Ward C. Page) In article <1991Feb5.035654.2926@cbnews.att.com> fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes: > >Are you sure that the Tomahawk was jinking? If the video camera was >being handheld, it would look like the missile was jumping about quite a bit >even if the cameraman was good and steady (unless he was using a Steadicam). The Tomahawk can detect radar emissions and will reduce its' altitude to avoid being detected. If the Tomahawk in the CNN video was being shot at with radar guided guns then this may have happened. However, it seems more reasonable to assume that the jinking was done by the camera and not the Tomahawk. 8) Ward Page Naval Ocean Systems Center San Diego, CA