From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #515 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Monday, 20 November 1995 Volume 05 : Number 515 In this issue: Re: Optical tracking See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Art Hanley" Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 23:21:56 +0700 Subject: Re: Optical tracking Regarding optical tracking in an air-to-air package, remember that we (the US) have already demonstrated this technology as a missile guidance system that was practical for operational uses. Actually "optical tracking", I believe, could be described as using the same principles as IR tracking but in the visible light spectrum. To Robin Lee: Yes, I got static over that Proceedings piece and something I posted elsewhere on the net. I even got e-mail from the director of the Hornet E/F program. If you read the response that followed in Proceedings, you'll note the standard F/A-18E/F defense: Namely, ignore all issues except to say that the Super Hornet is better than the existing Hornet in certain areas; Never address the threat, whether the E/F meets the threat or any alternatives to the E/F. Further discussion on this would be off the topic of this list, but I'll be happy to discuss it with you if you e-mail me directly. Art ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #515 ********************************* To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@mail.orst.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net To unsubscribe, send mail to the same address, with the command: unsubscribe skunk-works-digest in the body. Administrative requests, problems, and other non-list mail can be sent to either "skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu" or, if you don't like to type a lot, "prm@mail.orst.edu A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "skunk-works-digest" in the commands above with "skunk-works". Back issues are available for anonymous FTP from mail.orst.edu, in /pub/skunk-works/digest/vNN.nMMM (where "NN" is the volume number, and "MMM" is the issue number).