Well I was looking through some of my stuff from college and cleaning and straightening today and happened to flip through one of my old Physics books and came across an interesting section in the fundamental fluid flow section.
Did you know that when a bird of pray ( Eagle, hawk, etc. ) makes a power dive down upon its prey it it does not fly straight at the intended target? Rather, it takes a corkscrew/spiral path towards the target. Why? Because of the way a birds eyes are mounted it has poor vision when looking directly ahead and better vision when looking to the side. So it has three choices, fly straight towards the target and have poor vision while doing so (not to smart), fly straight towards the target and turn its head to the side while doing so (massive increase in fluid drag), or take the siral path while keeping its prey in the forward corner of an eye and only have a 3% reduction in efficency compared to taking a straight path with straight head.
So, okay, the missles don't have any problems with seeing straight forward. But, when flying in a straight line towards their target they are pretty darn easy to intercept. So with only a 3% reduction in efficiency (time to target in the case of a missile) you can fly a corkscrew/spiral pattern instead making it much harder to shoot down the missle. Next have the radius and rotational speed of the spiral pattern determined by a randomly generated wave form and you have something pretty darn hard to shoot down.
Hell, with only a 3% reduction in efficiency it should at least be worth a try.
Come to think of it, for at least the first time we saw them in action from the Antartic Outpost against Anubis fleet the drones seemed to fly a randomized corkscrew/spiral pattern in a solid stream up towards the fleet.
Did you know that when a bird of pray ( Eagle, hawk, etc. ) makes a power dive down upon its prey it it does not fly straight at the intended target? Rather, it takes a corkscrew/spiral path towards the target. Why? Because of the way a birds eyes are mounted it has poor vision when looking directly ahead and better vision when looking to the side. So it has three choices, fly straight towards the target and have poor vision while doing so (not to smart), fly straight towards the target and turn its head to the side while doing so (massive increase in fluid drag), or take the siral path while keeping its prey in the forward corner of an eye and only have a 3% reduction in efficency compared to taking a straight path with straight head.
So, okay, the missles don't have any problems with seeing straight forward. But, when flying in a straight line towards their target they are pretty darn easy to intercept. So with only a 3% reduction in efficiency (time to target in the case of a missile) you can fly a corkscrew/spiral pattern instead making it much harder to shoot down the missle. Next have the radius and rotational speed of the spiral pattern determined by a randomly generated wave form and you have something pretty darn hard to shoot down.
Hell, with only a 3% reduction in efficiency it should at least be worth a try.
Come to think of it, for at least the first time we saw them in action from the Antartic Outpost against Anubis fleet the drones seemed to fly a randomized corkscrew/spiral pattern in a solid stream up towards the fleet.
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