Taiwanese Dam Strike Old News...

"Kevin Brooks" 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?

The MOAB launch vehicle and system is what is interesting. Taiwan I
expect does have C130s and this suggests that extracting a 10 ton
missile by parachute from a cargo plane is possible. Perhaps 20 tons
is possible from a C130?

MOAB is a freefall device. I would envisage a missile more akin to
either skybolt or blue steel to give the necessary standoff
capabillity.


And doesn't "differential GPS" require both quite a bit of time
and some post-processing

It only needs to update and calibrate an inertial platform.






One advanced version of SCUD has a TV guidence system to reduce the
accruacy to well below 50 meters. (Using a trident missile for this
sort of business with a penetrating warhead is another option)

Taiwan has neither Scuds not Tridents. Scud lacks enough of a warhead, too.


In WW2 apart from the fact that the carrier aircraft were impossibly
vulnerable

And a C-130 lumbering through PLA and PLAAF defended territory would not
be?!

Yes, well rather a lot of standoff capability would be needed.



Brooks

the Germans could have carried out such attacks with
Fritz-X from around 1943 onwards and the Americans with AZON/RAZON.
The Kehl-Strassbourg guidence system was compromised after the capture
of some missiles in Italy but variations of the guidence system to
restore immunity were also possible and plans existed to use the
missile on the 2 seat 4 engined version of the Arado 234C jet bomber
and thus the Germans would have had a delivery vehicle for such a
weapon.. The Fritz-X was a little small: being half the mass of
highball.

AZON's main use seems to have been attacks against railway lines in
the far east in a role it was highly effective. (23% hit rate).
This CLOS type of guidence could have placed a bomb behined a damwall.