While data link is one method to accomplish the mission, there are other methods
in development, and have been for many years.

Can you be any more vague? Try limiting your posts to just one or two verifyable facts and fill the rest with the fog of
uncertainty.

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Venik
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"John R Weiss" wrote in message ...
"Tarver Engineering" wrote...
"Tarver Engineering" wrote...

As the rest of the thread up to this point indicates, there is a desire to
redirect a GPS guided munition post launch. The means to reprogram
the munition would require some data link.

Irrelevent.

GPS with FOG does all that already.

Fibre Optic Gyro.

AMSTE (Affordable Moving Surface Target Engagement) uses a post-release data
link to compensate for the long time of flight of the ballistic weapon used
(JDAM).

We already discussed that and Weiss just wanted to argue.

Actually I wanted to debunk your inaccurate claims regarding a "require[d]" data
link and some "GPS with FOG" system that "does all that already."

While data link is one method to accomplish the mission, there are other methods
in development, and have been for many years.

From Paul's description of the current state of AMSTE, it does not appear to yet
be ready for deployment in a CAS scenario. Maybe it will get there; maybe not.
Maybe we will have to spend the $$ for a true autonomous terminal seeker for
those situations where risk to the troops is too high for non-terminally-guided
weapons and/or data link is not an option.