Registered: Mar 2003
Location: On a spit of sand we call Earth
Nov-13-2010 02:33
Zewad
This is my custom status.
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Earth
missiles have guidance, rockets do not...(for the most part)
ie. once a rocket leaves the tube it goes on its trajectory and physics take over... missiles can move and steer and follow (heat seekers etc..)
there are a few caveats to the rockets, but yeah... you get the picture
it was most likely a naval training mission that was thought to be far enough off the coast, but bad timing with the sun setting and atmospheric conditions allowed it to be seen from the coast...
When Obama was here on Thursday lots of jets were flying overhead. I had no part of anything except was told to not go to Seoul.
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Nov-13-2010 02:49
Joss Weatherby
Banned
Registered: May 2008
Location: The Pacific Northwest, of course
quote:
Originally posted by Zewad
missiles have guidance, rockets do not...(for the most part)
ie. once a rocket leaves the tube it goes on its trajectory and physics take over... missiles can move and steer and follow (heat seekers etc..)
there are a few caveats to the rockets, but yeah... you get the picture
it was most likely a naval training mission that was thought to be far enough off the coast, but bad timing with the sun setting and atmospheric conditions allowed it to be seen from the coast...
When Obama was here on Thursday lots of jets were flying overhead. I had no part of anything except was told to not go to Seoul.
Still think it was too slow to be a solid fuel missile/rocket... Also plume is too big to be something smaller like a SM-3, which is the only navy missile (that isn't an SLBM) that goes pretty much straight up.
