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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Skywatcher who wrote (165559)7/28/2001 5:49:51 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
In a report to be published on Monday, Defense Week said the electronic beacon was used to help the weapon
compensate for deficiencies in the current U.S. ground radar-tracking setup and get into the general area of the dummy warhead.
Lehner said money was being sought from Congress for a powerful and sophisticated ``X-Band'' radar near Hawaii, or perhaps on a floating platform in the Pacific, to provide better real-time tracking of the target in midflight. Defense officials said U.S. military radars currently located at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and Kwajalein were too close to launches of the target warhead and kill vehicle to give a clear picture of the target's midcourse flight.
SO: Currently the US radar is insufficient to allow adequate midflight guidance to the interceptor. To compensate for this, a beacon is placed on the target to guide the interceptor through midflight. When the interceptor enters near-range, the beacon is turned off and the interceptor must perform the bullet-to-bullet destruction - the hard part - on its own.
In the final fielded system radars are included for midflight guidance. The midflight guidance problem either is already solved or will be the subject of separate tests.

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