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
How is this weapon called, captain?
It looks so small for something targeting ships.
Looks more like a short/medium range AAM or maybe something hunting radiating targets like a HARM or Shrike.
to destroy sea-bound CodeMonkeys you do not need to destry the entire ship if the targeting is precise enough :)
Erik
Might be enough to drop smart munitions like suitably "enhanced" Coca Cola or Jolt Cola, and have the code monkeys drop like flies.
Are we supposed to be impressed?
Exactly. What is this? Self-esteem session?
Impressed? I think the terms used to describe receipt were "shock" and "awe".
Receipt?
Maybe also "dang it!", or "Doh!", or "hold my calls", or "someone just gave me a new coy pond. I must get some coy".
Substitute "koi" for "coy" to suit your locale if you still have one.
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Keil manuals were on my mind during the conception of the project.
Yes, another non-non-non Keil 'boring' thing.
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 :-)