What Is It? (Submission)

"wOw"...(!) ... Hmmmmmm..... .......

HOW can I respond to THAT guess, WITHOUT divulging a "dead-give-away"...?!?

Gonna have to simply say..........................."No"

Ok, then does it control the fins in flight, to guide the missile?

? ................. (()) ............... WHAT fins.......?(!)

Lens unit for star guidance system on space vehicle.

"Oy vey" . . . (()) . . . well . . .

I cannot simply keep saying "No" {^{_{when "you're getting warm, with -~-" is 'due'}}}... nor can I continue to use that old "Billy_C" analogy...{"depends on what you mean by..."}

"At this stage", my response (to YOU) is: technically, it is not part of a "space vehicle"... and... well... that thing you mentioned... that would be "somewhere else"...

According to suggestions and subsequent hints provided I have come up with the following amalgamation.

Missile nose guidance system housing ring - providing pitch, yaw, roll control to maintain target vector direction and bearing.

Is this even close? Probably not.

Well --- I can see you put forth SOME effort.

Look *carefully* again at how I responded to "spades", just above.

T h e n ,

(?!?) Re-read my response to SE here, at #63

and . . . my reply to JohnDG here (#65)

... then my response to Tony's #78 (within my Post #80)

as well as my reply #86 (also to SE/#81)

... and ... "LASTLY" ...

I find it inconceivable that NOBODY has yet "followed-thru" with my reply regarding

Tom_C's input...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gimbaled missile engine mounting ring to provide guidance. Controlling yaw & pitch. Roll controlled if more than one engine exists. Maintains proper target bearing.

! ! ! ! ! ! . . . You "piped-in" here WHILE I was beginning to assemble my post just above...(!)

"Generically_speaking" ... "You've ALMOST nailed it"...

^{_{ONE FINAL STEP}} ...

WHO will tell us the name of the piece (I posted it, RIGHT HERE on CR4, back in October, 2009!)

And THEN ... who will "Take-a-Stab" (for that "drink ticket" <OP) at telling us which specific "delivery system" this FITS-TO...?

Ah-HAH!

http://cr4.globalspec.com/comment/463324/Re-Physicist-Proposes-Using-Cannon-to-Fire-Payloads-into-Space

...EGGScellent....! {and, "the NAME"...?}

AND - upon WHICH "certain era (warhead)" does this provide the "long-sought" accuracy (ever since that slide-rule-and-sextant work)...?

Vergeltungswaffen 2, (V2)?? Too old? If I start here, and guess each new generation of guided missile, I'll get it sooner or later.

He tells us it's the third stage booster, so that limits it to (IIRC) Saturn or Vanguard rockets, if this is an American rocket. Saturn used a J-21 liquid fuel engine The Vanguard used solid fuel in third stage propulsion - X248-A2 package - thus:

So, I still don't have a cogent guess at the vehicle,

[edit] I couldn't think of an ICBM three stager, but as I consider, the Minuteman is (IIRC) in this category. I'll check into it.

. . . YOU , at least APPEAR to be, the ONLY person who

"picked-up" on that "hidden hint". Congrats!

Uh ~ you did, also see, that "technically speaking, this is not part of a 'space vehicle'..."(?)

I was just pondering, here, as to whether-or-not "participants" should have to wait any longer for an answer... given that it also appears-to-be clear that the "Next-Generation-Sherlock" does NOT reside within ...(_^CR4)... and, there are too-many-hints (many, somewhat "cryptic") to try and assemble into a "sensible collage.

Ergo ~ if nobody "hit it" before I leave my desk for the day, it shall be UP.

Ahhhhh - ahmmmmm - epiphany time.

As you say, several hints - one repeated was 'ring' or 'ringing'.

That's the name of the manufacturer, innit?

Okay, with that nut cracked, should be easy now. Don't care much for Aldebaran Whiskey, so I'll let someone else give the answer.

"oy"...... "sorry", but no. (I had actually THOUGHT about using the term "resonates", in one or another of those contexts...)

Another 10 minutes-or-so, and........"Up she'll go".......

If it's not from the Nike / Ajax family, I am done....

That is my last guess, plenty of old Nike sites around the northern Detroit area..

See the ANSWER , just posted ... (Loki, then Nike were "seen" as well...)

Vectored exhaust nozzle control?

Still trying.

SEE 103 !

Auto Sextant mount?

OK - I give up - <unsubscribe>

Panorific flagellating tangential auto-condroiting guidance system?

Oww, that hurt my brain!

See the ANSWER , posted earlier ...

$6000 shower head to satisfy Mil Spec Q123-4567.

See the ANSWER , posted earlier ...

To me, this resembles a rudder carrier for a bearing and/or seal, designed to accept a rudder pintle. If this is in actuality what it is, as far as the size goes, I'm guessing it is for a large ship, ocean going or air worthy.

See the ANSWER , posted earlier ...

Thank you for the brain tease!

And the puns and double entendre.

You're most welcome... Not sure which specific "double entendre" you might be referring-to...{perhaps my Post#11 reply}:

"Though it's been known to "see some wind"......"Not quite".

The number of (literally staggering} tidbits/facts that will "blow-one-away" when immersed in the technologies-under-discussion, are innumerable...(!)

The pressures and velocities of exhaust gases within a (rocket) nozzle are... ahem... a "wind" of magnitude second-to-none...(!)

With regard to that "Mark 32 meteorological rocket" (a 3-inch dia. 5.5-ft casing);

"a 2.0-sec. motor burn time (zzzzzip!) carried a 1-inch diameter, 3-foot long payload dart to an altitude of 200,000 feet, or 38 miles! Talk about acceleration!"

... such things made for *incredible* conversation(s)...!