A friend of mine wants to know the following thing:
At some old books, especially from Czechoslovakia, there is written that there exist some magnetic guided air-to-surface missiles. As example was stated GAM-63 Rascal. Now we know that Rascal has different kind of guidance, but the pure idea of magnetic targeting sounds interesting. Is it possible from physical point of view to create such a missile and will it be effective?
By: Arabella-Cox - 28th December 2007 at 19:01
I doubt it. Magnetic anomaly detectors for ASW have a range measured in hundreds of meters, and they are dealing with a far larger lump of ferromagnetic material than most targets could ever be.
Perhaps as a proximity fuse?
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December 28, 2007 at 6:47 pm