Re: GPS BASICS: WAS:Re: BASICS: Property Rights

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Dec 11 1998 - 18:08:20 MST


Michael Lorrey writes:

> > Actually, what's the point in sending a Tomahawk from an off-shore
> > Destroyer or human-piloted fighter/bomber, when you can send
> > something up in a parabolic trajectory that uses GPS to steer while
> > decending upon its target?
 
I'm not sure, but don't you get EM shielding during atmospheric
reentry due to the plasma screen?
 
> Because:
>
> a) objects in ballistic trajectories tend to trip major alarms in the HQ's of the
> Strategic Nuclear command centers...
 



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