Change of day job

[Doug_S2]

My dad helped design missile guidance systems (amongst other things) when he worked for both REME and MCCS (Marconis) before he retired. Unfortunately he's never told me a thing about such stuff so I had to find out on the "Interweb".

Probably becasue it is not really that exciting stuff when you are designing parts for that sort of thing - i used to do that as well - for marconi, gec, ferranti, bae. The fun stuff is in the trials - like watiching radio controlled reconnaissance planes getting launched off the roofs of land rovers - then crashing!

[jeffw]

That's not fun....fun is standing on the upper deck of a County Class Destroyer while firing a Sea Slug missile (approx 2 tons & 20 ft long) and watching it leave the ship and hit the water....then resurface the other side of the ship and head skywards at Mach 1.5. Terrifying stuff but great a sinking submarines. Virtually every single Sea Slug or Seacat shoot I witnessed went in the water until we actually used it in anger.....

[Stigter]

What did I start? lol