From:	Duke Diener <DukeDragon@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: How to handle missiles?
Date:	Fri, 1 Sep 1995 20:01:59 -0400

Paul Adams wrote:

>Aerodynamics and the amount of control force that can be generated without
>excessive drag limit the G-force available to a missile, not materials
technology.

The missile is limited by the strength of the material used to construct
those control surfaces. There is nothing inside the missile that can not
'hack' a extremely high G turn, and in the end-phase of the missile flight,
where the missile would have to execute this maneuver, it doesn't care if it
bleeds off almost all it's energy in that turn as long as it can hit it's
target (or get close enough) and explode. One of the major limiting factors
in how many G's a missile can pull is how strong are its control surface
servos and at what point will those control surfaces just snap off the thing.

Duke