On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 18:23:28 -0500 Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> 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. I saw a video of a test (at the NTS, maybe) where a heat-seeking missile was supposed to fly toward the top of a mountain and hit the gasoline-fired target suspended on cables. In one case, the heat seeker broke lock with the gasoline-fired target and locked on a utility transformer on the top of a "power" pole about half-way from the launch site to the top of the mountain. People were not happy when the missile hit and destroyed the power transformer. Craig _______________________________________ 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
