Subj : Re: Up, Up, and away, in
To : Gamgee
From : Moondog
Date : Sun Feb 05 2023 12:12 pm
Re: Re: Up, Up, and away, in
By: Gamgee to Moondog on Sat Feb 04 2023 08:08 pm
> -=> Moondog wrote to Gamgee <=-
>
> > MR> exactly. very pathetic.
> > MR> too bad nobody flew a drone up there to pierce it or something.
>
> > Can you tell me where I can buy a drone that can fly up to 60,000 feet
> > altitude? Thanks.
> >
> > Oh, and it's gotta have a "piercer" on it too.
>
> Mo> Commercial GPS modules are limited by the gov't regarding
> Mo> operation range. hy are restricted in speed and altitude. They
> Mo> don't want home brew guided mnissiles.
> Mo> 20 years ago a New Zealander made aclaim it is possible to build
> Mo> a cruise missile for under $15000 at the time, and he wasn't
> Mo> taken very seriously. He started a build log, leaving out
> Mo> technical stuff to a minimum. When he scheduled a flightplan
> Mo> with the New Zealand version of the FAA, they took him seriously.
> Mo> And so did the US. He sells high end model planes and he was
> Mo> restricted in selling certain technology to customers in the
> Mo> Middle East. In order to function with commercial GPS chips, he
> Mo> kept his flight plan to lower altitudes and lower speeds. In
> Mo> stead of making a mach 4 missile he made a WWII style pulse jet
> Mo> similar to a V-1 rocket. It would fly along at 300-400 mph and
> Mo> fly a level course along several waypoints (low altitude object
> Mo> avoidance, fly below radar.)
>
> Cool story. Not sure what it's got to do with the topic under
> discussion..., but still cool.
>
>
>
> ... Diplomacy is saying 'Nice Doggy' until you find a rock.
If a civillian wanted build a missile to shoot something like that down, it
would have to travel at speeds less than 1000 knots and be guided in some
other way than GPS over 60,000 feet. 20 years ago a cruise missile could be
made ofr $15,000. I imagine one could made for under $10k
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