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7/2/2025, 11:23:50 PM
>>63929803
People in this thread are being purposefully obtuse.
From the software fucking up, to something interfering with the sensor, or some kind of electrical fault making the servo commands ineffective, there's a million ways a munition can be off target or even become a dud if it hits.
GPS guided munitions are communicating with an artificial satellite outside of Earth. Laser guided munitions are looking for the laser spot and there's always some kind of reflection, jitteriness, etc. involved. The CEP being a few feet isn't a prediction error but simply the fact that error is a fact of life and you can't eliminate it completely.
On a moving target the predicted impact point will have an error. On a maneuvering target the error does not accumulate between predictions. A maneuvering target makes itself hard to hit by kinetically defeating the munition or getting outside of gimbal limits. Not by zigging when the munition thinks you'll zag.
People in this thread are being purposefully obtuse.
From the software fucking up, to something interfering with the sensor, or some kind of electrical fault making the servo commands ineffective, there's a million ways a munition can be off target or even become a dud if it hits.
GPS guided munitions are communicating with an artificial satellite outside of Earth. Laser guided munitions are looking for the laser spot and there's always some kind of reflection, jitteriness, etc. involved. The CEP being a few feet isn't a prediction error but simply the fact that error is a fact of life and you can't eliminate it completely.
On a moving target the predicted impact point will have an error. On a maneuvering target the error does not accumulate between predictions. A maneuvering target makes itself hard to hit by kinetically defeating the munition or getting outside of gimbal limits. Not by zigging when the munition thinks you'll zag.
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