Laser Defense Not a perfect weapon (toxic chemica…
Laser Defense
Laser Defense
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. …
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…
This is an Aegis Destroyer: This is an Aegis Cruiser: This is an SM-3, launched from an Aegis Cruiser or Destroyer: This is a Delta, used to launch satellites. From land. Not ships. Class over, back to your regularly scheduled programming…
 We are about one-third of the way through Iran’s annual “Ten Days of Dawn†observation which celebrates the victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran and the return of the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. The occasion serves as a platform for Iran to boast about progress under the Islamic Republic and demonstrate military, scientific…
(As promised in this post, 2007 will see this blog cover more of the threats and concerns posed by China, Russia and other countries like Venezuela. Most of the China postings will be collected under the "Assassin’s Mace" or Shashou Jiang identifier. – SJS) The phrase "assassin’s mace" is the English translation of "shashou jiang,"…
SM-2 Intercept of SRBM 5 Jun 08 Aegis, Sm-2 Interceptors Kill Target Missile In Terminal-Phase Success (DEFENSE DAILY 06 JUN 08) … Dave Ahearn The Aegis weapon control system guided two Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) Block IV interceptors that obliterated a target missile in its terminal phase of flight, as the foreign-built unitary Scud-like target missile…