Is going to have some pretty cool toys to play with - especially this one.

So, this thing has a range of 200 miles, and the projectile reaches speeds of 8000 feet per second.  My question is, how do you control it?  That has to be a lot of G forces generated when that thing launches.  Can a GPS module handle it?  And what about whatever moving parts are necessary to keep the projectile on target?  How do you keep them from being sheered off?  A 200 mile range is great, but it's useless if you can't put ordinance on target. 

There is some speculation that some kind of sabot round would be used, and I think that makes a lot of sense.  A sabot is essentially a missile in a missile.  It was originally designed to defeat tanks, where the external sleeve would expend itself on the tank's armored shell, blowing a hole in it that the inner projectile would slide through so it could explode on the inside.  In this case, the sabot would be used during the launch, ablating and expending itself during acceleration, leaving the internal missile unharmed and able to complete it's mission.

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