How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
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Wikipedia is some fascinating ****. You go there to look up dome details on the MADI audio spec, and an hour and a half later, you're reading about precision guided munitions of WWII.
Did you know that smart bombs aren't a recent innovation? Both the US and Germany actively deployed several variants during the later years of the war. Some were infrared-seeking, some were active radar-homing, others were remote controlled by the bombardier after release, and a few development models of the latter actually provided realtime TV feedback to the operator.
And they did all this **** without DSPs, without microprocessors, without any solid-state electronics of any kind.
Did you know that smart bombs aren't a recent innovation? Both the US and Germany actively deployed several variants during the later years of the war. Some were infrared-seeking, some were active radar-homing, others were remote controlled by the bombardier after release, and a few development models of the latter actually provided realtime TV feedback to the operator.
And they did all this **** without DSPs, without microprocessors, without any solid-state electronics of any kind.