Message posted by Mark Lincoln on July 08, 2006 at 8:44:41 PST:
The ABL is so behind schedule and short of performance that it is on life support now. The Administration decided to halt testing on our current 'ballistic missile defense" system and deploy it because test failures had shown it was clearly never going to be deployed if testing continued. There was No Way it could have intercepted the recent satellite launch attempt by North Korea. Insufficient range and Delta V. While viable methods of intercepting medium range ballistic missiles have been developed, there is still no method of intercepting a ICBM. We did have a single launch of HOE (Homing Overlay Experiment) in the mid-80s, but there were three problems that prevented it from being viable. Aside from those problems, it worked.
1. We had to get the Russians to tell us exactly when they would launch a single ICBM with a single warhead at a time, and where it's target was.
2. The Russians would have had to let us put a heater and transponder in the re-entry vehicle.
3 The Russians would have to agree to not use any decoys that tried to mimic the heat signature of the heater, or the transponder.
In Reply to: Re: UNDER ATTACK! HELP! posted by lone wolf on July 07, 2006 at 19:41:01 PST:
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