Bullet flight time conventions

[Rupert]

Originally Posted by Anthony

If you've got course correction, there's no need to aim the barrel upwards; any viable homing round should be able to maintain a flat trajectory out to the limits of its effective range.

Fair enough.

I'm somewhat sceptical of the whole thing, at least for shooting at man-sized targets at range. We don't use self-homing ATGMs from ground launchers very much, and that's a much larger volume and mass available for the seeker, hunting for a much larger target.

Basically, air-to-air detection and homing is 'easy mode'. Ground targets are... not.