Re: Dyna-Soar question

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 00:11:40 -0600, Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>
>Derek Lyons wrote:
>
>>>Bombing a city sub-orbitally was something looked at in WWII, and that
>>>used nothign more than a periscope, Mark-1 eyeball and minimal
>>>bomb-aiming equipment.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>That seems hard to believe as the IP would be thousands of miles away
>>from the actual (planned) impact point.
>>
>>
>
>The key is to use a bomb that is powerful enough to make up for aiming
>errors- I'm think about a ounce or so of antimatter might do the trick.
> One of these days I'm going to dig up that CEP estimate that the
>Peenemunde boys sold the Wermacht in regards to the A4...I think it was
>something like a couple of hundred feet.
>
>Pat

A Google search for the A-4 CEP gives figures from 2 km to 20 km. Most
of the internet sources say 1/2 the missiles will fall in a 17 km
circle.


Rusty
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