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Sunday, January 21, 2024
Inertial Guidance Set, Minuteman II Ballistic Missile
I worked at Boeing’s Anaheim campus in the 90s just after they purchased North American Rockwell. They still had a building dedicated to building INU for the US Government. This unit, or a similar generation unit, was on display in the company library. I am pretty sure that the photo shows the underside, or aft, portion of the INU. The flip side of this had a structure with the gyros and other interfaces.
Indeed when I was there I was given to understand that the product lines in the INU building made units closer to the size of a Coke can for some applications. Since then, a lot of progress has been made with integrating multichip modules and MEMs so they may be even smaller. -Rob Muir
Early 1960's technology. A similarly capable guidance system now is tiny by comparison.
ReplyDeleteat least i do not see any tubes.
ReplyDeleteMilitary likes lots of screws in the covers. Just opening the thing up takes half an hour.
ReplyDeleteWere they safety wired?
DeleteRectangular subsets for a circular space?
ReplyDeleteI worked at Boeing’s Anaheim campus in the 90s just after they purchased North American Rockwell. They still had a building dedicated to building INU for the US Government. This unit, or a similar generation unit, was on display in the company library. I am pretty sure that the photo shows the underside, or aft, portion of the INU. The flip side of this had a structure with the gyros and other interfaces.
ReplyDeleteIndeed when I was there I was given to understand that the product lines in the INU building made units closer to the size of a Coke can for some applications. Since then, a lot of progress has been made with integrating multichip modules and MEMs so they may be even smaller.
-Rob Muir
Where's the 8 inch floppy drive ?
ReplyDeleteI can smell it from here…
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