Of course, starlight navigation is good, but there are also unavoidable shortcomings, the most critical of which is the natural weather.

Fortunately at night, the stars are shining, and the ancestors who used the starlight positioning method thousands of years ago will be the capital, not to mention the modern people who have advanced by leaps and bounds.

In fact, it is also true that astronomical autocompasses and sextants of light have been widely used in navies since World War II.

After World War II, it was miniaturized and equipped on large bombers, for example, the B52 strategic bomber of a large foreign country was equipped with the most advanced MD-1 astronomical automatic compass and KS-85 light point sextant at that time, so as to form a night navigation system, thereby enhancing the combat capability of the B52 strategic bomber.

Yes, this distributed starlight navigation system can only be used at night, and only in good weather, during the day or on rainy days.

This is also the reason why, when radio navigation and satellite navigation were fully popularized, starlight navigation based on astronomical automatic compass and light point sextant was quickly reduced to backup navigation and faced obsolescence.

Not to mention the poor accuracy, the limitations are still large, and it is difficult to react in time under rapidly changing conditions.

Surely they do, but they still choose without hesitation to use the starlight navigation system on their long-range ballistic missiles and cooperate with the inertial navigation system to form the final precision strike combination.

Why?

It's very simple, because the starlight navigation technology of the United States and the Soviet Union has long been free from the natural limitations of the astronomical automatic compass and the light point sextant in the conventional sense, and has truly achieved all-weather, automation, and high precision.

Otherwise, the missiles of the United States and the Soviet Union can only be used at night when the weather is fine, and the rest of the wind and rain and during the day can only lie on their stomachs, so it will be, is it possible that the day was unlucky to be bombed by a missile of the other side, and when counterattacking, they have to watch the sky at night, feel that the clouds are thick, and have to discuss with the other side, and wait for the weather conditions to allow to launch a counterattack?

If this is the case, the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union for nearly half a century will not be a Cold War, it should be called a laughing war, and there is really no such joke.

In fact, it is impossible for the United States and the Soviet Union to joke in such a key area, and the two countries have really achieved the degree of joining hands to lead the world and crush the world in partnership.

As for how to do it, the principle is actually not complicated.

In addition to the propagation of visible light, stars in outer space also radiate cosmic electromagnetic waves such as X-rays and gamma rays, and then based on astronomical theories such as spectra, they can determine the distance and mass of stars outside the region.

The starlight navigation systems of the United States and the Soviet Union are based on this principle, so the starlight navigation systems of the two countries are not simple optical devices, but radio telescopes close to the astronomical field.

In this way, the starlight navigation system of the United States and the Soviet Union can not only be used at night, but also during the day, even if it is windy and rainy, lightning and thunder are still not affected.

After all, the climate and environment can affect visible light, but invisible astral radiation cannot be stopped.

As for interference, not to mention it, all kinds of rays are mixed together, which is very complicated, and it takes how much power equipment can be fully covered.

Even if you take 10,000 steps back, someone really comes up with a device that can interfere with the radiation of an extraterrestrial object, and do you know that the starlight navigation system on the long-range missiles of the United States and the Soviet Union is anchored to that extraterrestrial object?

Because of this, the United States and the Soviet Union improved the starlight navigation system from visible light to invisible light, and its concealment was still unexpectedly good, and then with inertial navigation and navigation computers, the long-range missiles of the United States and the Soviet Union were able to crush all living beings in the world in terms of quantity and quality.

Of course, this kind of crushing is just the history before 1991, and now in 1994, this kind of history seems to be really gone, at least now the TY-6 UAV flying in the sky off the coast of eastern Zhejiang has the capabilities of the United States and the Soviet Union.

You must know that not long after Typhoon No. 11 passed through this year, the meteorological conditions in the entire eastern Zhejiang coast are not very good, not to mention the very thick clouds, and there is also rain in some areas.

If the TY-6 UAV only applies the visible light starlight navigation system, it is tantamount to self-suicide during the day and when the meteorological conditions are extremely bad, because there is no star position that can be anchored, let alone navigation.

But now the TY-6 UAV is enjoying itself in the sea off the coast of eastern Zhejiang, treating the light interference and bad weather during the day as nothing, what does it mean?

The Zenith-1 starlight navigation system is the same as that of similar navigation devices on long-range missiles of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Indeed, the Zenith-1 used by the TY-6 UAV is indeed comparable to the starlight navigation system of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Its prototype was the Soviet Star-5Б Starlight \\ Inertial Navigation Composite Guidance System.

It may be a little confusing to say that this abrupt model is a little confusing, but to say that the object of this system is well-known, officially the last intercontinental missile of the Soviet era, the core guidance system of the "Topol" ICBM.

Relying on the Stellar-5Б Starlight \\ inertial navigation composite guidance system, the Soviet "Topol" ICBM achieved an astonishing accuracy of 220 meters (circumferential probability) at a range of 11,000 km.

A few years later, Russia is the strength of the whole country, and the "Topol" M developed on the basis of the "Topol" ICBM has not exceeded this accuracy, the reason is very simple, after the disintegration, Russia has no ability to develop a new generation of starlight navigation system, and can only use the Star-5Б Starlight \\ inertial navigation composite guidance system, so in addition to increasing the warhead and range, there is no substantial breakthrough in the real core precision strike capability.

It doesn't matter if there is no breakthrough, the Stellar-5Б Starlight \\ inertial navigation composite guidance system left over from the Soviet era is enough for Russia to eat for many years, you must know that this system is a high-precision navigation \ guidance system developed by the Soviet Union at great expense to counter the United States.

In addition to the Topol ICBM, its prototype Star, the 5А Starlight \\ inertial navigation composite guidance system, was used in the famous Soviet "Oka" medium and short-range ballistic missile, and its accuracy reached 150 meters at a range of 500 kilometers.

This accuracy belonged to the level of anti-heaven in the eighties, not to mention that the Soviets completed it with only one set of Starlight \\ inertial navigation composite guidance system, which is enough to reflect the strong strength of the Soviet Union in ballistic missile guidance.

Of course, not many people may know about the "Oka" medium- and short-range ballistic missile, after all, this missile was destroyed at the end of the eighties, but another missile developed on the basis of it is famous, and it is the "Iskander" medium- and short-range ballistic missile that Russia threatens the West.

The Stellar-5К Starlight Inertial Navigation Composite Guidance System is an improved version of the aircraft on the basis of special missile equipment, and the Soviet Union's "Mysterious" high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft and Tu-160 strategic bomber, known as the U-2Sk, are equipped with this Starlight-5К Starlight Inertial Navigation Composite Guidance.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Zenith-1 starlight navigation system on the TY-6 UAV is properly famous, the eldest brother Topol missile, the eldest sister Tu-160 bomber, if you don't perform well, don't embarrass the eldest brother and sister~~