Word: decoys
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...match a map stored in its memory chips. Having fixed its own location, the interceptor will turn its telescope toward the target's expected location. As the interceptor and mock warhead travel to within 500 miles of each other, the interceptor should pick up the warhead, along with the decoy balloon and launch container. From here on out--in the final 100 seconds--the interceptor will be on its own, getting no guidance from the ground. But it will still be getting help. At this point, the balloon, the designated hindrance, will become the sly helper...
...missile fired from a Pacific atoll failed to hit a mock warhead deployed by a missile fired in California. Although the system managed to destroy a mock warhead last October, it was later reported to have been a lucky accident after the interceptor missile had locked on to a decoy balloon that drifted close to the target. "I call the Pentagon all the time and sometimes they can?t transfer my calls to the right place," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "So how are they going to manage to shoot down a missile with a missile? This...
...gets worse. "Intelligence professionals reviewing this case would have to consider whether Ressam may have been a decoy designed to draw attention away from someone else," says Dowell. "In Vietnam, the Viet Cong would often do all the preparations for an attack, knowing U.S. intelligence would pick it up and protect against it, but then not actually attack. If you have a big organization, you want to send out a lot of false signals to stretch your enemy's resources and keep him guessing about when you're really planning to strike...
...stand behind the Montreal police's enforcement. Red-faced, the police on Saturday set out on a so-far fruitless search to recapture the nine at-large members of the ring. South of the border, that just doesn't cut it, especially given the speculation that Ressam was a decoy for others smuggling explosives to different parts of the country. At this point, for all anyone knows, Ressam was acting alone and had no designs on a millennial blowout (or blowup), but until the double zeroes roll around, all American eyes will be looking north...
Their offense will be lead by junior forward Hilary Matson. Matson's speed up front makes her both a powerful offensive weapon and an amazing decoy...