Re:Major Saudi Arabia oil facilities hit by Houthi drone str...
by baybal2 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @02:09PM
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Just guessing by reports that some of them get both lost wildly of course and do strikes wildly off target, and some ran into the ground, which is consistent with, say, few of them being hit by gusts of strong wind which overwhelmed the INS, or some of them getting a freak barometric input.
And unlike with early ICBMs, precise accelerometer and airspeed inputs can provide quite good measure of lateral forces.
Were they had a satellite, or used HF comms, somebody would've either timed the satellite, or spotted the HF signal long ago. And there were no sign of a huge satellite dish one needs to communicate to satellites in high orbit in found drone remainings.
I don’t know much about drones but I have a pilots license and in my opinion it would be extremely hard to have forecast winds aloft accurate enough to reach a target hundreds of miles away with only time and vector information as the inputs.
They aren’t ballistic missles, going thousands of miles an hour, they’re going to be affected by wind.
They’ve got to be using GPS positioning too I would think. Why wouldn’t they?