Since these were contractors and often testing for performance related to designs, accuracy was considered a critical result of the tests, at least the ones I saw.
I saw a few that missed, and missed significantly. In one case a whole bunker of testing and video gear was destroyed that was a few hundred yards from the projected impact point. People were not happy. -D > On Nov 16, 2018, at 6:03 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > When I was assigned to a ship (early 90's), very rarely did we get to fire > our gun on a range where the target was towed by a boat and the boat was > crewed. They used a really long tow, and the safety measures took a long > time and were very cumbersome, so the whole deal was rather anti-climatic. > The tow was so long that the safety observers could visually see that the > gun barrel was pointing down the bearing of the target and not on the > bearing of the tow boat. > > When we did live missile firing exercises, we shot against a drone; the > range was pissed when we actually hit the drone and destroyed it, they > would try hard to fly it so we'd miss and then they could re-use it. A > near miss that didn't damage the drone was a passing grade, the real point > of the exercise was to safely and properly go through all the steps up to > and firing the missile, once it was "off the rails" and the fire control > radar was locked onto the right target, it was a passing grade (assumption > was that the missiles would do what they'd been designed and tested to do, > probably at China Lake). > ------------- > Max > Charleston SC > > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 5:05 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> No. Not that I am aware of. I witnessed a couple of tests like these, >> and in those instances the vehicles were being controlled remotely. >> >> -D >> >> >>> On Nov 16, 2018, at 4:55 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> Is somebody driving the target towing trucks? >>> Mitch. >>> >>>> On November 16, 2018 at 4:37 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=308&v=mWiSTeYUFt8 >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
