RE: [iwar] How good is missile defense system?

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Date: 2001-07-31 05:33:02


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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:33:02 -0400
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Subject: RE: [iwar] How good is missile defense system?
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I like techy toys as much as the next guy but haven't we played this tune
enough? If I want to deliver any payload in a cost effective manner I like a
small unmanned remotely piloted vehicle - Cheap, inconspicuous and I might
be able to blame somebody else.

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cohen [mailto:fc@all.net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 08:23
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Subject: [iwar] How good is missile defense system?


Defense Week
July 30, 2001
In Anti-Missile Test, Target Signaled Its Location
By John M. Donnelly
In this month's high-profile anti-ICBM test, a prototype interceptor was
able to find a target warhead partly because the target signaled its
location to the interceptor for much of the flight, and the transmissions
formed the basis of the targeting orders, according to officials and
documents.
The presence of the beacon, or "C-band transponder," on the target warhead
didn't guarantee that the interceptor would find and kill the target in the
July 14 test of President Bush's proposed missile shield. But the
target-location data gave the interceptor rocket a precise point in space at
which to aim and made its job much easier than would be the case if it had
relied on a ground radar's natural receptors, a Pentagon official confirmed.
What's more, a decoy that flew in the exercise to test the interceptor's
ability to distinguish a fake warhead from a real one had no such beacon on
it.
...


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