NationStates Jolt Archive

Today the government of Whittier announces the successful test of its new DingDong Antiaircraft missile.
Production on the new missile will begin in two months and all aircraft in the national fleet are being renovated to carry them.
Below are the specifications of the new missile:



Used as a long-range, air-launched air intercept missile
Unit cost: $500,000
Power plant: Liquid propellant rocket motor built by Homeboy Incorporated. The motor uses a mixture of liquid helium and liquid nitrogen.
Length: 13 feet
Weight: 1,024 pounds
Diameter: 15 inches
Wing Span: 3 feet
Range: In excess of 250 nautical miles; 350 statute miles
Speed: In excess of 5,000 mph
Guidance System: Semi-active and active radar homing, sattelite guidance system, infrared, ultraviolet guidance systems, and individual aircraft ID lockon (technology invented and patented by Whittier)
Warheads: Proximity fuse, high explosive, cluster bomblets
Warhead Weight: 200 pounds

Picture? Price?

Whittier has applied for a patent on this missile and has agreed to let IDF market it. IDF is the sole person who is licensed and authorized to sell the Ding Dong.
Those who wish to order the missile should do it through IDF.

I see. (Neutral Smiley Face)

Picture? Price?
I have agreed to let IDF determine the price.

individual aircraft ID lockon (technology invented and patented by Whittier)


Soudns awfully like Attica's ImRec missiles from ages ago...

OOC: Sounds pretty good for a guy who is supposed to be dead.

individual aircraft ID lockon (technology invented and patented by Whittier)


Soudns awfully like Attica's ImRec missiles from ages ago...
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We were unaware any one else had this type of technology.

Visiable sepctrum image reconition giudance ahs been used a good number of times, and IR version is sued by everyone with ASRAAM, Sidewinder X, IRIS-T or any other new IR missile, as they actually lock onto the individual IR image of the target (the javalin ATGM does the same) as opposed to a mere heat source.
Soem of the newer RF/EM giuded missiles do the same but locking onto the radar images.

Visiable sepctrum image reconition giudance ahs been used a good number of times, and IR version is sued by everyone with ASRAAM, Sidewinder X, IRIS-T or any other new IR missile, as they actually lock onto the individual IR image of the target (the javalin ATGM does the same) as opposed to a mere heat source.
Soem of the newer RF/EM giuded missiles do the same but locking onto the radar images.Actually, this system does use visual and infrared to spot the target but it requires Sattelite feed to confirm the target.
What happens is the missile is launched, this causes a sat. dedicated to support the system to activate and zoom in on the target and assign it an ID.
The ID is then transmitted to the warheads "brain". The missile then targets the ID, not the missile per se.
Because the target would obviously be moving, the sat. constantly updates the "brain" on the targets new coordinates even as the DingDong and its target are continually moving at high speeds.