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Post by ironman on Sept 17, 2005 13:19:11 GMT 1
Fly by wire
Well this is nothing new but i saw a few new weapons i didnt know that could shoot on a wire..
what is fly by wire?
well for example the American navy Submarines have torpedos that are connected by a wire while they are being shot at the enemy..
this allows the captain of the submarine a lot of xtra stuff, he can steer the torpedo or even let it circle the target..
but now i saw a tank with a missile platform on it and all them missles had a wire leading back to the tank so te tank crew could steer/fly them straight on the targets...
pretty nifty if you ask me... you can say they are semi smart weapons...
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Post by cheesecake on Sept 17, 2005 14:11:41 GMT 1
Fly by wire Well this is nothing new but i saw a few new weapons i didnt know that could shoot on a wire.. what is fly by wire? well for example the American navy Submarines have torpedos that are connected by a wire while they are being shot at the enemy.. this allows the captain of the submarine a lot of xtra stuff, he can steer the torpedo or even let it circle the target.. but now i saw a tank with a missile platform on it and all them missles had a wire leading back to the tank so te tank crew could steer/fly them straight on the targets... pretty nifty if you ask me... you can say they are semi smart weapons... Its amazing what inventions people are coming up with to kill other people ! ;D |
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Post by flying on Sept 17, 2005 15:06:05 GMT 1
Ok, but "fly by wire", in aviation, means the kind of airplane that is totally electronized, i.e. where there aren't any physical linkages anymore between the controls steered by the pilots and the movable surfaces of the wings and tail.
A computer (well, a bunch of them, actually) interprets the signals sent by the pilot's controls and in turn sends corresponding commands to the hydraulic and electric pumps which, in turn, move the wing ailerons, the vertical stabilizer rudder, the tail elevators, the wing flaps, you name it, that make the airplane pitch, roll, yaw, etc.
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Post by flying on Sept 17, 2005 15:09:10 GMT 1
I think Zecristo's brother, when he was in the Army, actually handled the kind of anti-tank weapon that is shot off a pipe, (pretty much like the Panzerfausts we all have come to love & hate), only with an attached "wire" that allowed an operator to steer it to some extent, as you describe, Iron.
Perhaps Zec has more details on this that he wants to share with us?
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Post by ironman on Sept 17, 2005 15:27:22 GMT 1
I think Zecristo's brother, when he was in the Army, actually handled the kind of anti-tank weapon that is shot off a pipe, (pretty much like the Panzerfausts we all have come to love & hate), only with an attached "wire" that allowed an operator to steer it to some extent, as you describe, Iron. Perhaps Zec has more details on this that he wants to share with us? yes u are right fly by wire is a kind of automatic pilot system for aircrafts, but this is kinda the same principle. i saw them anti tank bazookas too, the english army has these anti tank weapons that also are connected by wire so the operator can steer them, (wich is over rated) seeing that the rocket flys so fast by the time the guy made a adjustment the rocket is already at the target or flew passed it lol |
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Post by SilentVoice on Sept 18, 2005 2:38:00 GMT 1
I think Zecristo's brother, when he was in the Army, actually handled the kind of anti-tank weapon that is shot off a pipe, (pretty much like the Panzerfausts we all have come to love & hate), only with an attached "wire" that allowed an operator to steer it to some extent, as you describe, Iron. Perhaps Zec has more details on this that he wants to share with us? Cool but i dint its a tank More likely a AA vehicle or just support/mobile artillery |
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Post by ironman on Sept 18, 2005 18:30:16 GMT 1
its like them new missiles who have gps location system in them, a battleshop shoots one, then it just circles the ship and waits for more orders..
these have no wire in them but are remotly controled by satelite...
makes u wonder how long it will take for vihicles to do the exact same for example a tank with no crew on board..
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Post by SilentVoice on Sept 18, 2005 18:38:31 GMT 1
anyway which propulsion system do these missiles use
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Post by Zecristo on Sept 18, 2005 19:06:41 GMT 1
The "Blowpipe" AA missiles that my brother never shot when he was an NCO with the portuguese army where actually a very long way from "guided by wire missiles".
Of irish manufacture, they were a cumbersome (I would not fail much if I say 24Kg total, 11kg being the very missile itself) shoulder firing system that required the path of the aircraft to be almost "head on" with the weapons' operator and furthermore required the aircraft to be flying at a given narrow height interval and at almost precisely a given speed.
Add to that the operator having to aim (no wire involved if I recall well) the missile into three meters from the airplanes wings in order to induce detonate it's underwing offensive weapons (if they weren't spent already) and you can see it was a very difficult job to bring a modern airplane down with such a weapon...
Down to practical sense, my brother would rather try to shoot airplanes down with his G3 automatic rifle or his Walther pistol.
He never fired a real one, having stick to simulator only, because they were too expensive for the po(o)r tuguese army to allow itself the extravagance...
Anyway my brother spent a good deal of his military "career" assembling plastic kit airplanes for aircraft reconnaissance classes... what a good time...
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Post by DarkClown on Sept 19, 2005 13:46:56 GMT 1
maybe i can get some information about that kind of stuff from my cousin in the US, but i cant make any promises
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Post by ironman on Oct 8, 2005 18:15:53 GMT 1
TOW missle - Guided By Wire Missle   |
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Post by sitahipi on Jun 20, 2006 10:22:20 GMT 1
Its amazing....... I like it!!!!
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