You would have to catch it on the way up to destroy the guidance and navigation systems. The warheads ride a sled once free of the last stage propulsion. Then the sled takes picture of the stars to confirm location, can spin around to adjust, and then drops them. It just drops them. Due to it being in space and no friction, just dropping them is enough to reach many thousands of miles an hour.
It’s incredible how accurate they are considering they are dropped like a lead weight from space. I was always told unclassified accuracy is within a baseball Diamond if aiming at pitchers mound.
Interesting trivia, there is a cone of wood on the top of the missile. Some sort of Russian spruce or something unusual. I don’t remember the details exactly. It has whatever peculiar density and flexibility they were going for and couldn’t replicate it with synthetic. It sound loony, but it’s true. I saw it once. It’s actually quite beautiful. A dark rich color with black swirls.
Maybe. Probably not. A baseball Diamond is a descriptive term referencing the game of baseball's three "bases" along with "home plate." The "pitchers mound" is an elevated area in the middle of the geometric shape of a square the bases and home plate are situated in. When viewed from any of the four corners while on the field of play, this arrangement looks like a diamond. The distance between bases is 90 feet from one to the next. The perimeter of where the ICBM could hit would be inside a square with a perimeter of 360 feet if aiming for the center.
If you targeted the coordinates of the pitchers mound in a stadium, the warhead would land somewhere within the bases. It’s a way of describing accuracy. That’s the unclassified version. Which likely means the real accuracy is significantly better.
It’s a quite a feat when you consider it’s just dead weight falling out of space. That’s how accurate the celestial targeting system is.
You would have to catch it on the way up to destroy the guidance and navigation systems. The warheads ride a sled once free of the last stage propulsion. Then the sled takes picture of the stars to confirm location, can spin around to adjust, and then drops them. It just drops them. Due to it being in space and no friction, just dropping them is enough to reach many thousands of miles an hour.
It’s incredible how accurate they are considering they are dropped like a lead weight from space. I was always told unclassified accuracy is within a baseball Diamond if aiming at pitchers mound.
Interesting trivia, there is a cone of wood on the top of the missile. Some sort of Russian spruce or something unusual. I don’t remember the details exactly. It has whatever peculiar density and flexibility they were going for and couldn’t replicate it with synthetic. It sound loony, but it’s true. I saw it once. It’s actually quite beautiful. A dark rich color with black swirls.
Am I alone in having no clue what these phrases mean?
Maybe. Probably not. A baseball Diamond is a descriptive term referencing the game of baseball's three "bases" along with "home plate." The "pitchers mound" is an elevated area in the middle of the geometric shape of a square the bases and home plate are situated in. When viewed from any of the four corners while on the field of play, this arrangement looks like a diamond. The distance between bases is 90 feet from one to the next. The perimeter of where the ICBM could hit would be inside a square with a perimeter of 360 feet if aiming for the center.
If you targeted the coordinates of the pitchers mound in a stadium, the warhead would land somewhere within the bases. It’s a way of describing accuracy. That’s the unclassified version. Which likely means the real accuracy is significantly better.
It’s a quite a feat when you consider it’s just dead weight falling out of space. That’s how accurate the celestial targeting system is.
Am I alone in having no clue what these phrases mean?
more or less means within a 60' radius