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To: Snowshoe who wrote (189252)	12/10/2006 10:10:47 PM
From: alanrs	Respond to of 794776

Here's a quote from the recent article you linked. "GlobalSecurity.org says that 25 Katyusha rockets were successfully intercepted by an earlier version of the technology in 2000 and 2001, though it notes that atmospheric smoke and dust and "thermal blooming" are thought to defocus the beam, rendering the weapon ineffective. Development was also hampered by a need for greater mobility and the impractical size of early versions of the system." My limited experience with missile testing tells me a Katyusha rocket can be stopped if you know when and from where it's coming. Typical test conditions. Lots of things work well under test conditions that are of no value in real life. ARS