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swordtart · 05-30-2020, 04:13 PM

Hmmm. Except that you need links to the rocket and the laser and you can't link between vehicles (not withstanding the edge condition with car trailers).

It's not like you are continuously painting the target with the laser. CW lasers illuminate for the 1/5th of a second phase and then stop. If you have slaved the your own fire button to rockets then they can queue up the target at the same time and launch and arrive within that 1/5th second.

It isn't credible for a non-linked system to acquire and lock over a 60-90 degree arc with a manually coordinated launch with an illumination that short.

It might be different for laser-guided bombs as they spend more time in transit to the target, but I suspect Aeroduel glosses over all that.

05-30-2020, 04:13 PM	#12
swordtart Join Date: Jun 2008	Re: '39 _Maxi_ Hmmm. Except that you need links to the rocket and the laser and you can't link between vehicles (not withstanding the edge condition with car trailers). It's not like you are continuously painting the target with the laser. CW lasers illuminate for the 1/5th of a second phase and then stop. If you have slaved the your own fire button to rockets then they can queue up the target at the same time and launch and arrive within that 1/5th second. It isn't credible for a non-linked system to acquire and lock over a 60-90 degree arc with a manually coordinated launch with an illumination that short. It might be different for laser-guided bombs as they spend more time in transit to the target, but I suspect Aeroduel glosses over all that.