Paphitis wrote:
No not very likely.
And there is no way the missiles can be diverted. You need to read the link I posted earlier. These Cruise Missiles have their own inbuilt and self contained guidance systems. GPS is only one part of that and it isn't the main means of navigation and it certainly does not guide the missile onto the target.
There are so many aircraft that use TERCOM. The F111 was one and the Tornado is another. The Russians are unable to divert them.
Watch from 12 minutes onwards. 26 minutes for how it prosecutes the target. It describes the weapon as more like an Aircraft rather than a Missile.
The video is so elementary in the way the Tomahawks navigate to the point that is even childish.
Did you really learn from this???
If yes what do you think of what it says at the 38.00 timeline? Is that right or wrong or is the narrator confused?
The only thing it explains correctly is the theoretical way in which contour lines can be used to navigate via TERCOM .
Yet it tells nothing of the difficulties it might encounter in practice as for example sensitivity errors in velocity, heading, terrain whose profile is not unique etc. Let's leave aside the fact that Tercom navigation is impossible over the sea,or in the desert. Let's put aside the fact that the rule is that you cannot collect Tercom data to load it in it's memory by intruding the enemy's territory. [Unless of course you rely on data from Google Earth
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Here's a question for you. Assume it cannot use GPS positioning data.
What would happen when for any of the above reasons the contour lines it detects on it's path differ from those it has in memory?
Contour lines are not round circles you know. It will revert to INS to correct it's path right? But INS itself carries it's own inaccuracies.
So what do you think will happen next?
You can read more about the tercom disadvantages in wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOMIn summary these missiles are very effective only when you can intrude the enemy territory with almost no resistance, (like in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan) collect all the data you want even photograph the targets themselves, have no GPS jam, while the targets are fixed on the ground.
Kind of hard to ever get such great "weather" in a real war..
