{"id":194174,"date":"2008-10-18T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/18\/interesting-take-on-guided-70mm-rocket\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T06:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T11:31:00","slug":"interesting-take-on-guided-70mm-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/18\/interesting-take-on-guided-70mm-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Take on Guided 70mm Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Ab0198330-1c86-403b-afe6-1e16eea2b2ba\">Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System<\/a> (APKWS), which incorporates a laser seeker guidance system.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img267.imageshack.us\/img267\/5489\/cfc17091f59d4d16b0e7b99sx8.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/><br \/>There is an interesting twist to the guidance package, the APKWS mounts a fixed laser seeker on each wing, as opposed to the traditional gimballed laser seeker in the nose.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img267.imageshack.us\/img267\/4349\/afd8be0f56b34543884d482wo9.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"200\" \/><br \/>It&#8217;s certainly mechanically simpler. My guess would be that the deltas between the 4 seekers are used to get a precise aim point with the processor.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called the Distributed Aperture Semi-Active Laser Seeker (DASALS) a good example of using computing power to make a simpler and cheaper device.<\/p>\n<p>Note for the metrically disinclined 70mm= 2.75-inch rocket.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, here is some video pr0n of the system (4m 16s):<br \/><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sIMH7b6J28c&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sIMH7b6J28c&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sIMH7b6J28c&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sIMH7b6J28c&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS), which incorporates a laser seeker guidance system.There is an interesting twist to the guidance package, the APKWS mounts a fixed laser seeker on each wing, as opposed to the traditional gimballed laser seeker in the nose.It&#8217;s certainly mechanically simpler. My guess would be that the deltas between the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1211,1180,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense","category-missiles","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}