@jadebox Yeah the Python is ridiculous, that front set of canards I believe are called “destabilizers” if that tells you anything about the design.
I’m working on a scratch build of the Thales Starstreak. The image was my first prototype made with a clear tube to show what was going on inside. The orange circles are bearings on a hollow axel which allows free rotation and canards were not attached...which requires some imagination. Canards spinning about the missile long axis should average out their CP contributions, but also add gyroscopic stability.
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