Watch This RAF Tornado Fighter Obliterate An Armed ISIS Pickup Truck In Iraq

[Cigar]

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A pair of British RAF Tornado fighters intercepted and destroyed an armed ISIS pickup truck in Iraq this week with a “Brimstone” — a “fire-and-forget,” guided, anti-armor missile that has become the RAF’s weapon of choice in the Middle East


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q72n-wwyKoI

The missiles are guided via millimeter wave radar seeker and semi-active laser systems, which make the Brimstone highly effective against small, nimble targets. The 9 kg warhead has a range of 7.5 miles and is reportedly accurate to within 1 to 2 meters.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/02/watch-this-raf-tornado-fighter-obliterate-an-armed-isis-pickup-truck-in-iraq/

[nathanbforrest45]

I wonder if AAA will help him out.

[Common Sense]

Meanwhile the boys come back from the fishing hole and wonder where their truck went...

[Ethereal]

Accomplishes nothing while wasting millions of tax dollars. Standard practice for western central governments.

[Cigar]

This was posted in the Science, Health and Technology Room for a reason.

[Captain Obvious]

This was posted in the Science, Health and Technology Room for a reason.

Technically we could post porn here too, if it were allowed.

[Mister D]

Accomplishes nothing while wasting millions of tax dollars. Standard practice for western central governments.

War is cool now. Didn't you know? That may or may not change in 2016. :wink:

[Common Sense]

Accomplishes nothing while wasting millions of tax dollars. Standard practice for western central governments.

Each one of those 9 kilo missiles cost £100,000 pounds sterling...

[Cigar]

Technically we could post porn here too, if it were allowed.


I'm all for saying Phuck The Forum Rules ... if it's ok with The Administrators


I was pointing out the One to Two Meter accuracy of one Jet and one missile over a 80,000 Boots on the ground and a Squadron of C-17As filled with American Dead Troops being transported to Dover Air force Base, for burrial or under VA care for the rest of their lives under Tax Payer Expense.

Most Countries are starting to see the value of actually using Technology over 20th Century War Tactics.

[Captain Obvious]

Each one of those 9 kilo missiles cost £100,000 pounds sterling...

DickBush started it and the O'bama definitely picked up where they left off, but war feeds that special interest industry.

Basically the O'bama is rewarding the support of the corporatists who bought him on auction.

[Ethereal]

War is cool now. Didn't you know? That may or may not change in 2016. :wink:

I need to buy some stock in Lockheed and Boeing.

[Ethereal]

Each one of those 9 kilo missiles cost £100,000 pounds sterling...

Money well spent, eh?

[Mister D]

I need to buy some stock in Lockheed and Boeing.

You can't lose. Yesterday's peaceniks will be tomorrow's hawks.

[Cigar]

Missile Guidance

The hallmark of a cruise missile is its incredible accuracy. A common statement made about the cruise missile is, "It can fly 1,000 miles and hit a target the size of a single-car garage." Cruise missiles are also very effective at evading detection by the enemy because they fly very low to the ground (out of the view of most radar systems).

Four different systems help guide a cruise missile to its target:


IGS - Inertial Guidance System
Tercom - Terrain Contour Matching
GPS - Global Positioning System (http://science.howstuffworks.com/gps.htm)
DSMAC - Digital Scene Matching Area Correlation

The IGS is a standard acceleration-based system that can roughly keep track of where the missile is located based on the accelerations it detects in the missile's motion (click here (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/weapons/tomahawk.html) for a good introduction).

Tercom uses an on-board 3-D database of the terrain the missile will be flying over. The Tercom system "sees" the terrain it is flying over using its radar system (http://science.howstuffworks.com/radar.htm) and matches this to the 3-D map stored in memory. The Tercom system is responsible for a cruise missile's ability to "hug the ground" during flight. The GPSsystem uses the military's network of GPS satellites and an onboard GPS receiver to detect its position with very high accuracy.
Once it is close to the target, the missile switches to a "terminal guidance system" to choose the point of impact. The point of impact could be pre-programmed by the GPS or Tercom system.

The DSMAC system uses a camera and an image correlator to find the target, and is especially useful if the target is moving. A cruise missile can also be equipped with thermal imaging or illumination sensors (as used in smart bombs (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q)).



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