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ICBM Lifting Off - Naval Air Target?
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While stuck in traffic, bad traffic, I began wondering: how difficult would it be to intercept an ICBM lifting off out of somewhere like North Korea? Seems like it would be an 'easy' target: slow, going up, not evading. Or, would it be more effective to have a cruiser wait off shore to intercept with surface to air? Thx, Sks Humble Cessna Driver |
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Group...
While stuck in traffic, bad traffic, I began wondering: how difficult would it be to intercept an ICBM lifting off out of somewhere like North Korea? Seems like it would be an 'easy' target: slow, going up, not evading. Or, would it be more effective to have a cruiser wait off shore to intercept with surface to air? Thx, Sks Humble Cessna Driver Or you could do something really futuristic and shoot it with a laser from a 747. |
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Those are all good ideas! Your tax money has been working each and every one
of them for decades! So keep thinking of more good ideas while stuck in traffic! WDA end' "SKSvilich" wrote in message ... Group... While stuck in traffic, bad traffic, I began wondering: how difficult would it be to intercept an ICBM lifting off out of somewhere like North Korea? Seems like it would be an 'easy' target: slow, going up, not evading. Or, would it be more effective to have a cruiser wait off shore to intercept with surface to air? Thx, Sks Humble Cessna Driver |
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Fox Hound wrote: Group... While stuck in traffic, bad traffic, I began wondering: how difficult would it be to intercept an ICBM lifting off out of somewhere like North Korea? Seems like it would be an 'easy' target: slow, going up, not evading. Or, would it be more effective to have a cruiser wait off shore to intercept with surface to air? Thx, Sks Humble Cessna Driver Or you could do something really futuristic and shoot it with a laser from a 747. |
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like it would be an 'easy' target: slow, going up, not evading. You need to see a launch up close (around 2nm), they aren't going "slow" from the moment they clear the silo. I was very surprised the first launch I saw. Film/video footage from several miles back in wide mode doesn't do justice to just how fast those things are moving. BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" |
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I know this thread has been dead, but I thought I could add a little info. The idea of using an interceptor aircraft to shoot down a ballistic missile in boost phase was evaluated by the USAF back in the early 1990s. I think this happened after the first Gulf War. The USAF considered developing a very long range AAM to fit underneath an F-15. It would be cued by other sensors off the aircraft, such as AWACs or even satellites that detected the missile launch. The problem was that such a mission really requires around the clock coverage of a large area. They would have to put many aircraft in the air and keep them up for long periods of time. Expensive and not easy on aircraft or crews. The plan was dropped and the Air Force then evaluated the possibility of fitting the missiles to long-endurance UAVs. I think that this too was soon dropped, but am not sure why. One possibility is that UAVs at the time (and still) lack payload capability and they would have to carry a couple of heavy missiles, bigger than the AIM-54 Phoenix. You can find a couple of articles in Aviation Week in the early 1990s dealing with this subject. After abandoning this method, they turned to the Air-Borne Laser (ABL) approach using a big laser onboard a 747. You can look this up on the net. The program has run into a lot of problems--cost overruns and delays. There have been rumors of its cancellation, but it is currently limping along. D |
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An additional comment, if anybody cares. There was a small blurb in Aviation Week recently saying that the USAF is conducting a 1-year study to see if it is possible to carry THAAD or Patriot PAC-3 missiles on F-15s to attack ICBMs in boost phase. It's a small, $3 million study. D |
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