Snark Guidance System
SM-62 Snark Guidance System
The Snark was an air-breathing, subsonic, winged missile designed to carry nuclear warhead from bases in the United States to targets on other continents. It was briefly deployed in the 1950s but soon replaced by ballistic missiles.
The Snark guidance used a combination of inertial and stellar techniques to guide and navigate the missile to targets up to 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) away. The inertial system, consisting of gyroscopes, accelerometers, and a computer, guided the missile during launch. Once the missile achieved cruising altitude, the system found and locked onto a predetermined star and corrected any errors in its trajectory. The inertial system took over again during the dive to the target. The advances in stellar and inertial navigation that Northrop Aircraft developed for the Snark were later used on other aircraft, most notably the SR-71 Blackbird.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-62_Snark
Snark Guidance System
SM-62 Snark Guidance System
The Snark was an air-breathing, subsonic, winged missile designed to carry nuclear warhead from bases in the United States to targets on other continents. It was briefly deployed in the 1950s but soon replaced by ballistic missiles.
The Snark guidance used a combination of inertial and stellar techniques to guide and navigate the missile to targets up to 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) away. The inertial system, consisting of gyroscopes, accelerometers, and a computer, guided the missile during launch. Once the missile achieved cruising altitude, the system found and locked onto a predetermined star and corrected any errors in its trajectory. The inertial system took over again during the dive to the target. The advances in stellar and inertial navigation that Northrop Aircraft developed for the Snark were later used on other aircraft, most notably the SR-71 Blackbird.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-62_Snark