Re: Ballitic Missile Defense System - Target Launched From Kodiak Akaska

In article <v514g311u8dubvavu2nnf4tapv3sohn92m@xxxxxxx>, dav1936531
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=366_1191292827

Check out the video.
Dave

Ballitic Missile Defense System - Target Launched From Kodiak Akaska

Isn?t it funny how news like this is greeted with a collective yawn
from most of the media?

It?s another example of what they call in the journalism world a ?dog
bites man? event.

Boeing announced this weekend a successful intercept of a ballistic
missile in space of its mission representative exo-atmospheric kill
vehicle. In the past, there would have been much made of this
successful test, but now, it?s only news of a test fails ? the ?man
bites dog? event.

The test of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system began at
4:01 p.m. Eastern when a long-range ballistic missile target lifted
off from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska. Seventeen minutes later,
military operators launched an interceptor from Vandenberg Air Force
Base, Calif. As the interceptor flew toward the target, it received
target data updates from the upgraded missile-warning radar at Beale
Air Force Base, Calif. After flying into space, the interceptor
released its exoatmospheric kill vehicle, which proceeded to track,
intercept and destroy the target warhead.

The test, GMD's seventh intercept overall, was the second intercept
with an operationally configured interceptor since September 2006.

?With another intercept under our belts, we have even greater
confidence that the GMD system, if called upon in a real-world
scenario, will defend the nation against a limited ballistic missile
attack," said Scott Fancher, Boeing vice president and program
director for GMD. The Boeing-led test was highly complex, involving a
wide range of assets, including the Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX). SBX,
a powerful new sea-based sensor developed by Boeing, tracked the
target missile to prepare for the next GMD flight test, which will see
SBX provide target updates to an in-flight interceptor for the first
time.

Makes it sound like Boeing developed all this stuff, right?
This is how PR works.

The actual X-band radar in the so-called Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX)
is a Raytheon product. I guess the ship the thing sits on was bought
by Boeing, so they get to call the whole shebang their own.

Also, the EKV that did the actual interception and the "upgraded
missile-warning radar at Beale Air Force Base" that performed the
target guidance are from Raytheon.
I guess since the rocket booster is Boeing's the whole system must
be theirs.

--
Harry Andreas
Engineering raconteur
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