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Re:US hypersonic missile fails in test- 2nd consecutive fail... by jandrese on Friday July 01, 2022 @12:43PM (#31949097)
So you can build missiles that fly extremely quickly to a part of the sky where the target is no longer occupying?
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Re:US hypersonic missile fails in test- 2nd consecutive fail... by killjoywashere on Friday July 01, 2022 @01:11PM (#31949524)
@edenceover is probably referring mainly to the boost-glide vehicles that are moving at up to mach 20 ... through atmosphere. The air-breathing cruise missile type designs go slower (only mach 6-ish) but at that speed you can have a sane discussion about guidance. This rocket-guidance problem, by the way, is where the Black-Scholes model came from.
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Re:US hypersonic missile fails in test- 2nd consecutive fail... by govg on Friday July 01, 2022 @01:15PM (#31949578)
Do you mean Ito's Lemma? As far as I know, Black-Scholes itself had nothing to do with rocket guidance.
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Re:US hypersonic missile fails in test- 2nd consecutive fail... by killjoywashere on Friday July 01, 2022 @02:17PM (#31950517)
yes, thanks.
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Re:US hypersonic missile fails in test- 2nd consecutive fail... by ARandomerDude on Friday July 01, 2022 @12:55PM (#31949286)
Or at the ground and hit the wrong target, potentially with very bad consequences.
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