Posted on 07/19/2008 1:43:30 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
U.S. missile defense sensor test called successful
07/18/08 19:07:54
A missile launched from Alaska was successfully tracked Friday by land-, sea- and space-based sensors in a test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the Boeing Co. said.
The test demonstrated the most complex integration to date of radars required to support a missile intercept, Boeing said in a statement.
The test used a Navy destroyer-based Aegis Long Range Surveillance and Track system in the Pacific; the AN/TPY-2 radar in Juneau, Alaska; the Upgraded Early Warning Radar at Beale Air Force Base, Calif., and the Sea-Based X-Band Radar on a floating platform in the Pacific.
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Morning to ya. (Ya know what time it is over here?) I suppose if the test were a failure, we would have heard about that on CNN/ABC/CBS/PMSNBC 24/7.
Yes, I do know you got up too early or have been staying up too late.:-)
Good news! Thanks for posting.
No worries, Osama Obama has gone on record that it is unproven and he will shut it down...........
Kodiak, Alaska’s second spaceport.
Greely has 21 interceptors installed and operational.
Seeing it under way is surreal, like a multi-story condo cruising along.
The one thing for sure all this hardware will do, and it is very large, is make a sneak attack impossible. Maybe not completely impossible, but anything short of a 1000 warhead ICBM and submarine launch would have to disable the system first or the attacker would possibly find his warheads useless and his own self receiving an offer he cannot refuse.
Our **deployed** missile defenses look very good today with sea-based Aegis SM-2 and SM-3 interceptors, mid-course land-based interceptors, and terminal phase interceptors (typically PAC-3 interceptors).
That’s 3 layers of missile defenses for a small attack, or 1 giant anti-missile system (600+ total interceptors in those 3 layers) for a MAD-style attack defense.
And considering the time that it takes to launch ICBM’s, our own counter-strikes should be hitting an enemy before more than 600 ICBMs can be launched against us.
That’s nice progress.
But there’s more.
We’re testing our Airborne Laser this next month or so. It’s flying. That’s a 4th missile defense layer that is about to be deployed.
Of course, the usual know-nothings typically much up these threads with outdated cries about a nuke in a cargo ship...not realizing that our radiation detectors have been deployed since 2002 on land, at sea, and in the sky.
All of the above may not be perfect, but it’s a credible defensive picture overall...something that no previous generation has ever enjoyed...and it’s something that no enemy can field today, either.
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