Steeljaw Scribe

Sensors - Intro
A layered system such as the BMDS requires a multitude of sensors with differeing characteristics.  Why you ask?  For several reasons.  One is the nature of the threat - be it short, medium or intercontinental in range, there will be one or more differing sets of sensors that will come into play.  Another [...]

‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
‘To talk of many things:
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax –
Of cabbages — and kings –
And why the sea is boiling hot –
And whether pigs have wings.’
– The Walrus And The Carpenter by Lewis Carroll.
Well, the time has come to talk of things - Missile Defense [...]

At the end of a very long day/night for YHS (that has stretched into the bright new dawn…):

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2008 - A network of land-, air-, sea- and spaced-based sensors confirms that the U.S. military intercepted a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite which was in its final orbits before entering [...]

UPDATE: 20 Feb (21 Feb UTC) MARK INDIA - all indications intercept successful.  More to follow…
In the 24 hours since the press conference announcing the decision to use a special modification of the Aegis BMD/SM-3 system to mitigate risk from the failed NRO satellite, reaction across the ‘verse (net) has been, well, predictable:
“It’s really an [...]