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

From: e.r. (fastflyer28@yahoo.com)
Date: 2001-08-29 21:32:58


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Subject: Re: [iwar] How good is missile defense system?
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get a grip ed- it was a pipe dream a sdi-not much better now
--- Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org> wrote:
> Slightly crazy idea...
> 
> If the 'real' reason for the missile defense system is to stop
> terrorist
> attacks a question asking who will launch these attacks should be
> considered?
> If Russia is not a big risk them why not invite Russia to participate
> in the 
> design/implimention of the system.  Who else could be invited? 
> Assuming it 
> can be made to work (big if IMHO), this would lead to a big chunk of
> the 
> globe protected against missile attack...
> 
> Ed Tomlinson
> 
> On July 31, 2001 09:48 pm, you wrote:
> > If you can believe this, SecDef Rumsfeld wants to deploy Missle
> defense
> > platforms on land air and sea without actually testing them!  Not
> > cad-cam, or computer modeling.  He just wants the platforms with
> > something on them out their.  Can you say piss off Russia and 
> break
> > ABM in 10,000 pieces.  Granted, it is a treaty between one country
> that
> > no long exists and the US, but Bushes Cold Warriors continue to
> look
> > for a cold war, or create one if not.  The present OSD crew is
> without
> > shame
> >
> > --- John Sforza <jsforza@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> > > 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
> > > To: Information Warfare Mailing List
> > > 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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