From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 16 2003 - 17:37:51 MDT
--- John K Clark <jonkc@att.net> wrote:
> According to the American Physical Society a Boost-phase missile
> defense would be ineffective.
>
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/07/030716090538.htm
The people who put this together are all Scientists for Social
Responsibility left wingers. They are entirely wrong, as in the
following:
"The Airborne Laser currently in development has the potential to
intercept liquid-propellant ICBMs, but its range would be limited and
it would therefore be vulnerable to counterattack. The Airborne Laser
would not be able to disable solid-propellant ICBMs at ranges useful
for defending the United States"
Why, exactly, would a solid fuel ICBM be invulnerable to an ABL? Any
idiot who remembers the O-rings of the shuttle SRB's remembers how the
escaping gasses out the side put the leaking SRB on a screwy course
once it was released from it's shuttle/tank payload. Solid ICBM's
cannot be steered correctively to overcome a jet of hot gasses escaping
perpendicularly to the flight path.
=====
Mike Lorrey
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