"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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"Eunometic" wrote in message
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snip more of Arndt's unsupported fantasies


The reason for the 'bouncing bomb' was surely that it was the ony way
that a large charge could be placed accurately.

There are at least half a dozen different guidence methods in service
in various types of missile that can achieve 1 meter accuracy.
Maverick, Martel, the old Condor, Raptor, SLAMER differential GPS, TV
with or without man in the loop etc. All that is needed is to 'super
size' them. An extraction of a MOAB sized weapon from a C130 being
one option.

A C-130 penetrating 1400 miles of PRC airspace and delivering a MOAB, huh?
Get a grip. And doesn't "differential GPS" require both quite a bit of
time
and some post-processing?

All the DGPS processing is easily handled in a hand held unit, real time.
The problem being you need the well surveyed differential station(s) in
the area up and broadcasting the difference between where the GPS and
the survey say they are..
The latest version, WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System), has all the
user data coming from the sat. However, a precisely located ground
station has to send the correction data up. The theory being if the ground
station and the user are looking though the same atmospherics the
correction factors are the same.
I'm not *real* well read in it but it looks like in practice that the
correction factors generated in Taiwan would significantly improve
accuracy at 3GD.