Is there any advantage to using laser guidance over the GPS guided bombs? Seems easier to use GPS, the only advantage I can see for laser is that the A10C can carry more of the 500 pounders on the TERs. Is there something I'm missing?

Hi Everyone, I’m trying to get an idea of what order these subjects should be learned in: Guidance Navigation and Control, Optimal Control, Kalman Filter, Inertial Navigation.

I’ve been looking at university class schedules and I can’t quite tell.

Thank you all for the help!

I'm going to break the synthesis up into a short series of posts over the next few days as it will otherwise probably be too long for most readers to digest easily.

Introduction

Paul Hill was a rocket scientist for NACA/NASA in the 1950s, and developed the first tilt-to-control flying platforms to model UFO flight characteristics with conventional propulsion technology.

Hill had two sightings of UFOs during his life, the first of which was on July 16, 1952, near the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. When Hill reported his first sighting to his boss at NASA, his boss asked him whether he had been drinking and dismissed Hill's observations. Hill was unperturbed, however, and began an unofficial effort to collect data from other NASA scientists who had their own encounters. Hill then set about trying to prove UFOs conform to the the laws of physics rather than defying them, as part of a strategy to make the scientific community take reports of UFOs more seriously.

Hill lays down his theory of how UFOs work in his book, Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis, which was not published until after his death. Hill never saw a penny from his book; his theory is a pure exercise in scientific inquiry, for which he received zero credit or public acclaim during his lifetime.

What's in a name?

As you can tell from the title of the book, Hill preferred not to use Captain Edward Ruppelt's term "UFOs." Hill argued the craft where not "unidentified" (because observers did in fact identify them as unconventional craft), and that the use of "flying" obscurred the reality the craft were capable of transmedium travel in water and outer space, as well as in Earth's atmosphere. However, Hill did favor the use of "object" to describe the craft, because the craft are physical things. According to Hill's analysis, UFOs are not a projection of some Jungian universal consciousness, or an aparation or hallucination or trick of the eye; they are physical craft similar to human aircraft: metallic and hard; dense and massive.

[I agree with Hill the craft are physical objects, and believe the switch in language to "UAP" and "the phenomena" is part of a MIC strategy to dilute the topic of nuts-and-bolts craft with werewolves and ghosts and other bullshit. Consequently, I am going to refer to UFOs hereafter as "field-vectored cr

Scramble all fighters! Here'll be my fist go at a proper fighter battle. Bigger ships are sure to follow...

Credit for the Universe of Between words goes eternally to u/BlueFishcake. I'm just playing with their toys.

Any criticism, commentary and spelling fixes are always appreciated.

Hope you enjoy.

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Arkira pulled up on the controls, curving the trajectory of the strikecraft to level off just below the clouds of dust. As the ship levelled after the sharp dive, the point defence turret peeked through the surface layer, like a shark fin cutting through the surface of a vast sandy coloured ocean.

“WOAH! YEAH!” he hollered, continuing with the verse from kickstart my heart. The turret turned to point into the dark of space, tracking the incoming projectiles. Light flashed in the lense, a powerful burst of photons lanced out into the void, crossing the distance to its target in less than a second. A small flash lit up the black as a missile was seared through by the heat and detonated.

The turret moved to track another target. Tight beams shot out repeatedly but failed to hit their target until another five seconds passed. The missile's subtle jink’s and twirls throwing off the aim of an otherwise incredibly precise weapon. But more were coming, not just for lightning-2, but lightning-1 as well. All the while Diavolo picked out the estimated targets of the missiles and prepared countermeasures.

‘8 at us, 7 at L-1, 15 missiles total. 2 down for us, PDC not cutting it,’ He thought to himself. His training kicked it. Not missing a beat, Diavolo selected 3 particular missiles on the console and glanced towards the incoming threats. Raising a hand at the space between him and the hostile fighters, he tapped and drew a circle in the air around the group of missiles. His HUD and neural implant interpreted the display. The targets were selected.

He thumbed the launch button.

On the left side of the strike craft, a rectangular port snapped open. Three Ordinance intercept missiles (OIM’s) were magnetically flung off their launch racks and into space. Each listed amongst the light debris before their propulsion sys

Previous one: https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/rggahm/212024_213011_changes_part_1_release/

2.12.0.24 → 2.13.0.11 changes Part 2 (release):

• Ka-52
  • vertical limits of the targeting camera – -110° / 110° → -90° / 90°
  • FPS optic angular limits – -89° / 89° / -109° / 109° → -89° / 89° / -89° / 89°
• Mi-24P (all GER) – R-60M → R-60MK.
• G-LYNX, Lynx AH. Mk. 1 – CMs readded.
• M46 (all), M47, 15 cm (Sfl.) Pz.Kpfw. II B, C2A1, Jagdtiger, Pz.Kpfw. II (all), Pz.Kpfw. III B, Pz.Kpfw. III E, Pz.Kpfw. III F, Pz.Kpfw. IV C, Tiger II (all), Stu.G. III A, BMP-1P (all), BMP-2 (all), M47 (JP), ZBD86, M47 (105/55), Merkava (all) – added physical tracks.
• M975 AMDS
  • added radar animations
  • ADATS track radar removed
• TCM AGS
  • added the automatic sight range correction
  • added a spall shield
  • sight – M127 → Merkava
  • added laser rangefinder as Tier III mod
• BMP-1P (GER), BMP-2 (all) – spall shield: 5 mm RHA → 5 mm aluminium. (the X-Ray is incorrect)
• DF 105
  • added a commander sight
  • sight – Begleitpanzer 57 → Merkava
• Tiger II (all) – UFP, LFP, turret front, turret sides are no longer volumetric.
• 2S3M
  • MG horizontal limits – -160° / 150° → -161.5° / 156.5°
  • added a commander sight
• BMP-1P, ZBD86 – spall shield: 5 mm RHA → 2 mm aluminium.
• BMP-2D – turret ring: 6 → 7 mm.
• T-54-3 – grille over the engine: 5 → 10 mm.
• Challenger 2 (TES) – ROMOR-A ERA → ERA (mainly buff).
• Type 10
  • armour reworked
  • roof MG:
    • horizontal limits – -120° / 120° → -180° / 180°
    • vertical limits – -8° / 20° → -8° / 60°
  • fuel weight – 1500 → 1400 kg
  • full weight – 44.500 → 44.400 kg
  • min engine RPM – 800 → 600
  • max engine RPM – 2400 → 2300
  • added one more forward and rearward gears, gear ratios changed
  • driver – gen 1 NVD → gen 2 NVD
  • commander – gen 3 NVD → gen 3 thermal
• M41D
  • horsepower – 360 → 405
  • sight – M97 → Abrams
  • Smoke – Tier IV → I
  • gunner thermal – gen 2 → gen 1
• VCC-80 (HITFIST 60)
  • armour reworked
  • empty weight – 23.000 → 24.700 kg
  • full weight – 23.500 → 25.200 kg
  • sight – Type 89 → Centauro
  • LWS removed
  • added a gen 3 commander NVD
• Bkan 1C
  • added the spall sheilds to the X-Ray view
  • sight – Strv 103 → Bkan 1C
• M-51
  • armour reworked because of the model change
  • cannon:
    • CN105/57 → M-51
    • reload –

To say I was confused would be an understatement, I knew of the Pharean, but who were the Pharoum? A subspecies? Different race entirely? Political party? Before I could pester the Harmony for more information someone sat down at the cafeteria table across from me. I quickly halted the simulation as he started to speak.

“I did some thinking,” Ben said as he dropped a stack of papers between us, “the strange matter in the plants had to come from somewhere, right? The energy requirement to create it would be on the level of a massive particle collider, and we’d be able to detect something like that. But plants, and animals, don’t create elements. They don’t fuse hydrogen into carbon. They harvest what is available, so I thought, what if the plants are merely making use of the strange matter?

“When we first landed we did a bunch of soil tests, to determine how, or if, we’d need to modify crops. Among those tests were a number of spectrogram results,” Ben paused to motion to the papers he’d laid out, “Back then we were looking at nitrogen levels, carbon content and the like, and there was the normal assortment of metals and silicates you’d expect. I found a few dozen that had ‘anomalous’ spectral lines. Lines that, as it happens, match with the results of the strange matter.”

“And you didn’t make note of them sooner?” I asked, looking through the papers.

“We had more pressing problems at that point,” Ben pointed out, “and a few dozen anomalies out of hundreds of tests weren’t exactly something we had the time for.”

“I suppose,” I nodded, sure enough the vast majority of results showed an alien, but not abnormal elemental assortment one might expect of dirt. Perhaps not the most interesting science, I’ll admit, but most isn’t.

“Based on the results I’d estimate strange matter makes up a fraction of a percent of the planet’s crust,” Ben continued, “and most of the deposits closer to the surface will have become part of the life cycle. No idea how it got onto this planet but it might be easier to harvest more of it from the soil.”

“It would be a big help for me, but I don’t know if it’ll help you guys out,” I replied.

“You said the main thing holding back your magic was your lack of this substance, right? If we get you more you might be able to use it to help us out in turn, or,” Ben smiled at me, “teach us to use magic as well!”

I rolled my eyes, it seemed that no matter the world people always dreamed of magic. I knew he would be disappointed when he g

[Interviewer:] Senator Nelson thank you for being here

[Senator Nelson:] It’s a great pleasure, thank you.

[Interviewer:] This Rocket that was involved in the incident in French Guiana this week…

[Senator Nelson:] Yeah, the one the telescope fell off?

[Interviewer:] Yeah

[Senator Nelson:] That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

[Interviewer:] Well, how is it untypical?

[Senator Nelson:] Well, there are a lot of these rockets launching payloads all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen … I just don’t want people thinking that rockets aren’t safe.

[Interviewer:] Was this rocket safe?

[Senator Nelson:] Well I was thinking more about the other ones…

[Interviewer:] The ones that are safe,,,

[Senator Nelson:] Yeah,,, the ones the telescope doesn’t fall off.

[Interviewer:] Well, if this wasn’t safe, why did it have a $10 billion telescope on it?

[Senator Nelson:] Well, I’m not saying it wasn’t safe, it’s just perhaps not quite as safe as some of the other ones.

[Interviewer:] Why?

[Senator Nelson:] Well, some of them are built so the telescope doesn’t fall off at all.

[Interviewer:] Wasn’t this built so the telescope wouldn’t fall off?

[Senator Nelson:] Well, obviously not.

[Interviewer:] “How do you know?”

[Senator Nelson:] Well, ‘cause the telescope fell off, and 10 billion dollars of hardware fell into the sea, caught fire. It’s a bit of a give-away.” I would just like to make the point that that is not normal.

[Interviewer:] Well, what sort of standards are these rockets built to?

[Senator Nelson:] Oh, very rigorous … aerospace engineering standards.

[Interviewer:] What sort of things?

[Senator Nelson:] Well the telescope's not supposed to fall off, for a start.

[Interviewer:] And what other things?

[Senator Nelson:] Well, there are … regulations governing the materials they can be made of

[Interviewer:] What materials?

[Senator Nelson:] Well, Cardboard’s out

[Interviewer:] And?

[Senator Nelson:] …No cardboard derivatives…

[Interviewer:] Like paper?

[Senator Nelson:]. … No paper, no string, no cellotape. …

[Interviewer:] Rubber?

[Senator Nelson:] No, rubber’s out .. Um, They’ve got to have an inertial guidance unit. There’s a minimum engine requirement.”

[Interviewer:] What’s the minimum

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15 October 2021

Dear Fighter Pilots, Partners and Friends,

In a recent DCS: Supercarrier update the functionality of the upcoming Air Boss station and Briefing Room was described. Both features will provide interactivity that requires changes to the ViewCore subsystems. In order to smoothly transition between the Air Boss station, Briefing Room, and LSO station, we have created a special Camera Route Editor and an advanced view system that allows custom bookmarks to be created on the carrier deck and other locations. This adds camera movement route options to help create spectacular scenes for video creators.

It is with great pleasure that we share our advancements on MultiCore. We are making good progress, and we have prepared a short roadmap for your consideration. Upon completion, performance and VR support will be improved.

In the upcoming Open Beta 2.7.7 update, the AIM-120 AMRAAM missile will receive an INS unit with datalink support, a revised seeker model, and updated guidance laws. Please read the details below.

The new DCS: MiG-21bis Battle of Krasnodar and Constant Peg campaigns by our third parties will be available in the next Open Beta update. If you want to know more about making official campaigns, please contact us.

Thank you for your passion and support.

Yours sincerely,

Eagle Dynamics Team

Supercarrier - Development Progress

DCS: Supercarrier

Over the past six month we have been working on a human motion model with intelligent behavior for infantry and deck crews. We have started with the deck crew, and we will scale it to infantry units. Both logics will receive two new behaviours: Obstacle Avoidance and Dynamic Reroute according to the situation. Re-routing behaviour is based on a path search algorithm with any-angle path planning.

Obstacle Avoidance is based on the Optimal Reciprocal Collision Avoidance (ORCA) method used for holonomic robots with several restrictions on linear and angular speeds, linear acceleration, and discreteness of animation. The first phase of the development is complete and cases must

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

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"Bogey Gamma is shifting formation, looks like Goliath-Seven is tumbling," Tactical Four called out.

"Biowarfare System Twelve is breaking up, looks like Leslie Neilson got a piece of its brain," Tactical Nine added.

The massive warship shuddered as it fired it's rotating eight barrel C+ Cannon arrays in carefully staged shots. There was a slight pause between each shot, only a half second, to keep the powerful guns from warping the frame of the warship or damaging the recoil absorption system.

The system was of little note. A failed colony almost wiped out by a Precursor machine but saved at the last minute by an insane murderous lemur packed with high tech cybernetics almost six years prior was its only claim to fame. It was resource rich, however, and that made it valuable to some.

It also sat squarely in the intersection of four Niven Ring passages and six Doom Tube passages.

Which made if valuable to one side.

"Temporal Resonance Cannon shockwave incoming! ALL HANDS, BRACE FOR IMPACT!" the Captain called across the eVR of the super-dreadnought's bridge.

The other side was there to deny it to the other side, nothing more, nothing less.

With the exception of killing as many of the first side as possible.

The shockwave hit the three hundred ships of the smaller fleet, pouring over the vessels with such power that it made the battlescreens flare and sparkle. Several had paint streaks change color, nearly a half dozen shifted position by nearly a dozen miles, and one rippled and was replaced by a nearly identical ship with different hull numbers.

"Soaring Breezes has undergone temporal exchange!" Called out Tactical Five. "Getting sitrep now."

The Captain nodded, staring at her foe.

Nearly three hundred Autonomous War Machines, almost a hundred of the strange crystalline and battlesteel ships preferred by the enemy, and eighteen clusters of bioweapons designed for space combat and who knew what else.

She clacked her beak in irritation as one of the clusters fuzzed, spores ejected from the living creatures masking the cluster.

"Order Task Force Harrington to hit Bio-Seven with their full missile load, they're up to something and I don't want nasty surprises," the C

The ADIR war against the Swahili Federation (formally the EAF) has left our military commanders assessing the weakness of our national security as well as modern warfare in general. A disturbing trend where the aggressor seeks to eliminate the entirety of the enemy air force while it’s on the ground in an alpha strike seems to be prevalent in modern warfare. This has lead to not only a movement towards the direct reinforcing and arming of air bases throughout the Swahili Federation, but has also starting to move the paradigm away from maintaining total air superiority over the Swahili Federation and instead moving towards denying the enemy any gains they might make with an air force. To that end, the Assegai, Iklwa and Knobkerrie missiles were conceptualized and put to testing.

Knobkerrie-105

The Knobkerrie-105 (Kb-105) is the Swahili Federation’s answer to a domestic SHORAD missile concept. Utilizing the domestically produced Rotating detonation engine, the Knobkerrie-105 boasts a mach 5 intercept speed in a relatively small missile package. Designed to counter aircraft, C-UAV, and take on counter cruise missile duties, the weapon is also being envisioned to take on C-RAM roles.

Comparable in size and payload to the AIM-9 Sidewinder, the Kb-105 utilizes a imaging infrared homing system to better track and defeat enemy systems and achieve a target kill with the munition.

Specs

Type: SHORAD

Mass: 82.1 kg

Length: 3.02 m

Diameter: 125mm

Warhead: annular blast-fragmentation

Warhead weight: 10kg

Detonation Mechanism: IR proximity Fuse

Engine: Awassa Propulsion Group SE05

Wingspan: 280m

Operational Range: 1.0 to 40km

Maximum Speed: Mach 5+

Guidance System:Infrared Homing

Launch Platform: Aircraft, naval vessels, fixed launchers, and ground vehicles.

Cost: $450,000

Assegai-115

The Assegai-110 (AS-115) is the second missile being developed in order to better service the Swahili Federation in the form of BVRAAM missiles. Designed in order to help defeat incoming threats in the form of aircraft, C-UAV, and cruise missiles beyond visible range by giving our pilots and ground crews a system capable of fire and forget capabilities. Boasting an impressive speed of Mach 15, the AS-115 is a world beating system in terms of intercept capabilities. Similarly utilizing a rotating detonation engine, though more advanced than that used on the KB-105, the AS-115 speed and efficiency give it a world beating flight profile.

Designed with the flight profil

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