From: Robert Comer 

>However....if you have an abort routine/signal....then you are running a
>risk that the enemy find out how to generate & send them.

I bet they have a self destruct signal -- I know they do in test firings
and would be surprised if live firings don't.  And no, it's not easy to
break the signal, it's digital and they have unique codes.

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Bob Comer


On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:23:18 +0000, Ad
 wrote:

>Phil Payne wrote:
>>> So the means of delivery fall in price & come into reach
of more & more.
>>> Why invest in fighters etc when missiles can be so much cheaper & if
>>> anything the fact that they can't be recalled is a deterrent in itself.
>>
>> Of course they can be recalled.  If it's economic for Virgin Trains to
>> download seat reservation data to each individual seat via a satellite link
>> from Birmingham, a military could have cruises online during their entire
>> flights.
>>
>>
>
>Yes & no. A drone can be recalled.
>
>1) A cruise missile's range is predicated upon it being a 1 way trip.
>2) In addition landing gear is a range reducing luxury .
>3) A Cruise can be fired from a marine environment or dropped from an
>aircraft meaning...recall to where?
>
>
>i.e. were a 700 mile range drone say 200-300 miles into it's trip then
>yes it could be recalled to crash land somewhere close to where it was
>fired (assuming a land base).
>
>However it would actually be of no use given that unless the crash
>landing was well done, you'd just have broken bits anyway so....you may
>as well just have an "abort" routine/signal which simply crashes the
>device upon receipt.
>
>
>However....if you have an abort routine/signal....then you are running a
>risk that the enemy find out how to generate & send them.
>
>
>Adam
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Bob Comer 

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