there is no access point

but then what is guiding your missile

no way for a hacker to get in, short of physically entering my home and plugging something in

Onboard computing and targeting technology, I would presume.

a simple algorithm (AI) and raw sensors

valid point

With how much a missile costs, a couple thousand dollars in sensors and electronics isn't really a factor.

thats right missiles do cost an actual fuck ton

for example an IR camera, a computer, and a program that says "point missile towards brightest glowing bit"

amraams go for what 300000 dollars imagine buying it of "the black market"

idk what you would do with an amraam

shoot it with bullets?

but wouldnt that make it very susceptible to being misled

that's why planes use flares

yes so we are back at 2018

and why missiles use as many backup systems as they can squeeze in

"if IR feed isn't clear, rely on UV", "if UV feed isn't clear, try sensing plane's magnetic fields", "if NO feed is clear, estimate range to target, if range is less than 50m, detonate anyways and hope for the best otherwise deploy parachutes"

GPS, too. not for an anti-air missile obviously but for ground targets

even better idea let childeren from chinese factories fly those rockets not susceptible to flares dont cost alot and are still guided

million dollar idea here

Japanese did that

yeah and the germans

manned torpedoes

but they didnt use chinese factory childeren

V1 or the V2 some of the ancestors of the ICBMS nowadays

ye, Japanese patriots are more reliable

the japanese also had manned missiles

wut no

kamikaze pilots

definitely not V1 or V2 at least

no im talking about the germans using v1/2

yeah those weren't manned

i confused them with something else

yeah my bad

the japanese still did the most crazy stuff as in weaponry

if it werent for weapons the germans would be the lunatics

with their scientists

I think you may have gotten those two mixed up...

wait what

are you still talking about the v1/2 issue?

Germans had Vampir, the first infantry night-vision, a really crazy idea at the time.
The first jet fighter, Me-262, that was insane for it's time
Me 163 Komet, a rocket-powered plane with photo-cells and a cannon mounted facing up, that would blitz past under enemy planes and the cannon would automatically fire when the photocell got blocked, as human reaction speed was nowhere near good enough to hit, a crazy idea in and of itself
"Silbervogel", a project never finished that would have sent a 100 ton plane shaped like a flying wing, carrying liquid oxygen and oil mixed with powdered aluminium as fuel, fly West skipping (like you skip a rock on water) on the denser layers of the atmosphere once you get higher up, technically reaching space, eventually reaching the states where it'd drop a 10 ton bomb, and continue going West to where the pilot would hopefully be able to slow down and parachute to safety in Japan
Of course the V1 and V2 that laid the groundwork for both the US and Soviet space programs
Patterned camouflage
And a ton of other crazy stuff