How did the Iranians get the Phoenix to work?

(phil hunt) wrote:


What's special about these batteries then? Obviously they aren't
going to pay 10 grand for the sort of battery I can buy at my
local corner shop. Is it a matter of how much energy the batteries
store? That they take up a small space? That they have low internal
resistance?
They are probably militarized thermal (single use)
batteries.
They are designed to match the needs of the missile
fairly precisely in terms of power, duration, and quality
(stability and precision) of the power supplied.
It's a non-trivial activity, to say the least.
That's just an educated guess as someone who worked on
mechanical packaging of batteries though, there are lots of
people with more electronic/battery background than me.
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