Back during the cold war some EE said that he had little faith in any radio controlled missile. The only thing you could trust was a wire guided missile. He added, it must be really strong wire . . .
I'm guessing it comes off a reel axially like the fishing reel.
Yeah, like a spinning reel, not like a fly reel. All the diagrams I've seen show that.
This photo shows a TOW missile with two wires spiralling off the back
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I'm told that the Scorpion tank's Stinger missiles use a fine gauge coaxial wire for a video feed and control.
I wonder if any missiles use optical fibre instead of wire, it should work for something like (IIRC) MILAN where the sustainer and steering jets are off-axis and forward of the spool, well once the booster change has finished firing. maybe that start of the fibre would need an ablative coating to protect against the booster flame during launch.
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I designed several hybrid circuits for the TOW missile when I managed the engineering department at Dickson Electronics, so I was a guest at numerous test firings.
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Yes; the bobbin is fixed, and the wire comes from the CENTER of the ball-of-string bobbin. No rotating reel, just slightly curly wire from the inside of a little can.
Your wire, of course, is not a perfect communication channel; if it drapes over grass, all is fine. If it dips into a salt marsh, not so good.
Not really. Every firing I witnessed was letter-perfect.
Only "fun" thing was the electronics are in a stack of round PCB's. The assembly is shoved inside the missile tube, then the tube is compressed _magnetically_ ! One hell of a shock! They managed to kill some of other suppliers components, but none of my hybrids ever failed. So they loved me ;-) ...Jim Thompson
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Yep. They called it a "magneformer". ...Jim Thompson
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exciting! I made a magneformer, and did some coin crushing years ago. I should see if the caps are still good. I've not really figure out how to dispose of them when they finally burst as they're about the size of a two drawer filing cabinet, but much heavier. Not sure the scrappers would grab them if they're bleeding out in the alley.
Back during the cold war some EE said that he had little faith in any radio controlled missile. The only thing you could trust was a wire guided missile. He added, it must be really strong wire . . .
I'm guessing it comes off a reel axially like the fishing reel.
Bret Cahill
***Not much more than a decade or so ago, some of the salvage & surplus dealers were advertising reels of that wire in various electronics hobby mags.
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