[Milsurplus] Boatanchors in Spaaaaaace

Mon, 11 Aug 2003 12:12:05 -0500

It it the decoder that extract steering orders (pitch and yaw) for the
missile.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of William Donzelli
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 10:01 AM
To: David Stinson
Cc: Milsurplus New mailman
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Boatanchors in Spaaaaaace

> Trying to identify a vacuum tube based missle seeker head.
>
> http://home.mindspring.com/[email protected]/missle/miss1.htm
>
> Can anyone ID this?  The box said "NIKE AJAX."

I can't ID this, but it does look like a seeker head, with the "STEERING
ORDER" business. Is that round white disk thing some sort of antenna?

The thing has Western Electric written all over it (GS numbers), and the
construction is similar to a bunch of M38 Nike junk I have around here.

Neat-O.

William Donzelli
[email protected]

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