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Seeks and destroys sea-bound CodeMonkeys... http://i.imgur.com/fDhfx.jpg
--Cpt. Vince Foster 2nd Cannon Place Fort Marcy Park, VA
P.S. I'm bored
Yes, another non-non-non Keil 'boring' thing.
How is this weapon called, captain?
It is called "BOA"
Yes, it does have "microprocessors" and "microcontrollers" and "DSPs" and "FPGAs" in it. It also uses something called "C" and "Assembly" and "VHDL."
And yes, it is 'impressive' since it rivals Sidewinder AIM9_. Oh, and it even has a blinking LED. (Once I got the LED blinking it was down-hill from there: I'm sure you guys know that though).
Ooops, I forgot to mention I was having a self-esteam problem on Friday. Fragile ego you know.
But captain, does it have a lock-on-after-launch capability? That is the hot trend, even for heat seekers (Python-5, Aim-9X, ASRAAM etc.)
"...China Lake developed an improved compressed carriage control configuration titled BOA. ("Compressed carriage" missiles have smaller control surfaces to allow more missiles to fit in a given space[7]. The surfaces may be permanently "clipped", or may fold out when the missile is launched.)
The BOA design reduced size of control surfaces, eliminating the rollerons, and returned to simple forward-canard design. Although the Navy and Air Force had jointly developed and procured AIM-9L/M, BOA was a Navy-only effort supported by internal China Lake Independent Research & Development (IR&D) funding. Meanwhile, the Air Force was pursuing a parallel effort to develop a compressed carriage version of Sidewinder, called Boxoffice, for the F-22. The Joint Chiefs of Staff directed that the services collaborate on AIM-9X, which ended these separate efforts. The results of BOA and Boxoffice were provided to the industry teams competing for AIM-9X, and elements of both can be found in the AIM-9X design...."
Yes. Again it is an alternative to AIM9X (of which I worked on too, just in case you needed more 'impressing').
At least you are aware of the AIM9X rendition.
Where did you read that? I didn't know it was published!
See paragraph 6.2 here:
en.wikipedia.org/.../AIM-9_Sidewinder
National security today is not what it used to be :-)
It was always speculated that "BOA" stood for "Box Office Airframe" Paragraph 6.2 seems to support that since indeed it was at China Lake's Boxoffice.
I'll have to dredge up another photo of BOA (If you are so willing?)
At one of the sites we developed part of the BOA... (NOTE: The power in those canards are [shock-n-] awsome).
http://i.imgur.com/ojpRP.jpg
Now this is really cool !
What is cool is when you see the system doing a simulated flight, chasing an aircraft. The power in the canards are kind of scary to watch. I'd love to explain why, but that gets into 'stuff'. Ear-regardless, Keil did have *some* work in the BOA. (and no, there wasn't actually any "blinking LEDs" on this system).
Watch the sycophants hover overhead.
I died of self respect, i can't afford a car I wanna be a pre-fab superstar i wanna be a tool, dont need no soul, wanna make big money playing rock n' roll Drool, drool, drool, My Payola.
Mr. Black,
I think *we* should encourage others and the work they do. Some stuff is harder than others, etc. Thanks for the 'sycophant' remark, but I think you might be a tad put off by this [admittedly] boring thread. Check the attitude.
Another baby: (OLD one) http://i.imgur.com/L1UL9.jpg
Hm. "Dropping the bomb on the competition" just became a lot more literal.
Of course it has been published - how else would you be aware of it?
Anyway, how did the move go? All settled in?
how else would you be aware of it?
I meant, published for public consumption.
Unless you are trying to say something else like I 'lifted' the photo to claim it was my work. (?)
I have plenty more photos of widgets that can dispell such an avenue of thought. (The kind you get at your development desk and not off the internet).