Anti-missile test rigged
2001-07-31 23:01:28+02 by
Dan Lyke
3 comments
So the real news isn't that half of the anti-missile defense system tests have succeeded, it's that half of them have failed despite anti-missile system test targets having embedded homing beacons. So all that talk about "decoys" was apparently just so much hoohey. If I had a vendor that was faking results, lying to me, and mis-estimating my requirements, I'd drop 'em. Why don't we fire the Pentagon and hire the North Korean military instead? it'd be cheaper, and we'd probably get more apropriate solutions.
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#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:32:25+01 by:
TheSHAD0W
Heh. It's thoroughly Slashdotted. Do you have it in your cache?
#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:32:25+01 by:
Dan Lyke
Salon follow-up here.
#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:32:24+01 by:
TheSHAD0W
Yhe targets did have embedded beacons. This is because we do not have a high-resolution radar infrastructure that'd be necessary to deploy such a system. The beacons were required so the kill vehicle could get within range of the test missile, in order to test the final phase of targeting.
Now, if the kill vehicles were equipped to follow the beacon all the way in, that WOULD be a serious fraud. But I suspect the people at the Pentagon aren't all THAT stupid, and check to keep that from happening. At least, I hope so.
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