The function of the antimissile defense system is simply to cause the incoming warhead to miss its target and/or fail to detonate when it gets there.
Got that stuff going, but plumb forgot to put the Hoover in the package to clean up.
Sorry about that.
Not in the spec. Rev 2.
I've been in military aerospace manufacturing and a fair bit of it was a corrupt racket.
IIRC, the Russian system, which existed before SDI, simply sends a nuke up there to blast it. Maybe we should put out a contract on it.