Inertial Navigation System?

Boncuk said:

... and a minor correction: A 500lbs bomb has a destruction radius of 1000feet. To get into close gun range to destroy an airborne target the distance must be 800feet or less. Any more questions about "no particular danger in getting close" to a flying bomb?

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3v0 said:

Which is why the Luftwaffe never used fighter planes to shoot down Allied bombers?
LOL

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Boncuk said:

LOL

Remember the Alamo! Also remember Schweinfurt. Only 54 B-17s (Flying Fortress) downed in one night by ME262 jet fighters.

Also a minor correction here: There is a slight difference between a bomber and a bomb.

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3v0 said:

I was being ironic.

What I was getting at is fighter planes could have downed V1's without blowing up the warhead, as they did with bombers. A V1 may have been a smaller target but it had no guns and could not do evasive maneuvers.

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Boncuk said:

I know.

The problem was simply speed. Of course you can cut a wing by opening the "shower" using the gun. But it takes some time to achieve that, too much time to fly co-speed with the target.

History also proves that using explosive shells the fighter aircraft was endangered the same as the target. When it blew up the fighter blew up, too.

BTW I have downed a danish Starfighter without use of any weapon. The pilot made a safe silk let down. (parachute landing)

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3v0 said:

Why shoot down a Danish pilot ?

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Boncuk said:

It just happened during an air defense exercise, when I was the target. The pilot ignored the rule to avoid jet washes and passed mine at high g-load. This multiplies crossing a jet wash and one wing broke off. Even titanum can break.

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speakerguy79 said:

I was watching a History channel documentary on Nazi technology, and they talked about the V1 flying bomb being the first weapon to use INS based on gyroscopes, and how amazingly accurate they were for something of their time being able to fly to Britain from Germany and hit cities with some decent accuracy.

Anyway, with todays MEMS products, would it be possible to make an INS for an RC helicopter, RC airplane, or model rocket (I imagine that would be most difficult)? I know that GPS would be a much more modern and accurate method for accomplishing the same thing, but I have something of an interest in just doing things 'the old way' for personal edification.

Any recommendations on where to start? I won't be loading these with warheads or anything, though I might try and target a friend's farm or something to test my accuracy.

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