On Jun 7, 2005, at 8:05 AM, Howard Winter wrote:

>> I don't see how a SINGLE computer would be much use in improving the
>> accuracy of missiles.
>
> They formerly used mechanical computers to improve the accuracy of
> artillery - If communications couldn't be used to send targetting data
> from the computer to the missile site, it's not difficult to produce
> look-up tables and graphs by computer that could be kept there.
>
Guiding a missile is a much different task than directing artillery.  I
don't think any amount of ground based computing can help much when most
of the variables change during the flight itself...

BillW
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