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Ken S. Tucker wrote:
On May 10, 12:23 pm, "Keith Willshaw" wrote: standards) to search, select, aim and fire. And be shot down by a Standard 2 missile - oops Maybe 80% of the time, but you forget PROBABILTY. I'm well acquainted with PROBABILITY. This is why you do "shoot-look-shoot" - and suddenly your threatening track now only has a 4% chance of surviving. (And this assumes that you only have time for one follow up) Note that any soft-kill countermeasures still get to play with the surviving threat seekers. Looking up at a missile with a large phased array radar is a lot easier than looking down from a small set from a fast moving warhead even if you dont have to do it through plasma. So what? They still have real time tracking. Which is a weak link in the chain. Hit that and the system collapses before the birds fly... Weapons are part of a system, not isolated items. Actually the microprocessors used in military electronics are typically 5 years or more BEHIND those used commercially . The requirement to harden them against EMP and provide TEMPEST protection pretty much ensure that. The processor in my cellphone is probably more capable than that in the F-22. Why is my BS detector pinned at 100% ??? :-). Because you're reading it wrong? -- He thinks too much, such men are dangerous. |
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