Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1507-996582155-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:23:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 10663 invoked by uid 510); 31 Jul 2001 11:25:00 -0000 Received: from n22.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.72) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 31 Jul 2001 11:25:00 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1507-996582155-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.54] by cj.egroups.com with NNFMP; 31 Jul 2001 12:22:35 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 31 Jul 2001 12:22:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 4213 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2001 12:22:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 31 Jul 2001 12:22:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 31 Jul 2001 12:22:33 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id FAA11755 for iwar@onelist.com; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:22:33 -0700 Message-Id: <200107311222.FAA11755@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] How good is missile defense system? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. ... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Small business owners... Tell us what you think! http://us.click.yahoo.com/vO1FAB/txzCAA/ySSFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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