Peregrine Falcons Inspire Counterdrone Thinking

Credit: Oxford University
Fusing the 20th century’s love of rockets and computers, guided missiles iterated on a simple concept with complex calculations. Designers quickly settled on a guidance law under which the missile’s turn rate is proportional to the angular rate at which the line of sight between attacker and target...

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