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Russian tactical aircraft dropped 10,577 guided aerial bombs on Ukrainian territory in the first three months of 2025.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/04/1/7505538/


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[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, glide bombs are also vulnerable to electronic countermeasures. This is because of how they figure out where they are and where they need to glide to in order to get to their target.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The missile knows where it is...

Edit: Sorry, I was not trying to be a jerk, but memeing, but I forgot I was not in NCD. For more information on how the missile knows where it is, see my reply to @Carrolade@lemmy.world 's comment.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Ahh, that's a new copypasta for me, thanks for sharing. I don't run into the new ones much anymore, shitpost communities in general became a bit too skewed for me in the funny:dumb ratio at some point. That's a good one though.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, and how exactly does it know?

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.