Word: interceptor
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...ground-based missiles that would stand guard over all 50 states, poised to destroy a handful of incoming missiles. In time-tested Star Wars practice, the President is expected to decide in June 2000 whether to deploy the system, even though tests on key components--such as the missile interceptor and the rocket it will ride on--won't be completed until three years after that...
...Force to answer a question about whether the Patriot-like missiles that will be coming at us from Eglin will be carrying warheads capable of blowing us up if they should miss the target missiles. To which I eventually received, in writing, the not entirely soothing reply, "The interceptor [Patriot-like] missiles are 'hit-to-kill' design or are a proximity-fused design which carries conventional explosives in shaped configuration. Hit-to-kill interceptors use kinetic energy and do not generally have explosives. 'Proximity-fused design' means that the missile is designed so that when an object such as another...
...Pacific Daylight Time, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese put in an urgent call to Ronald Reagan...The mystery of a missing South Korean jetliner...had been solved: 17 hours earlier Korean Airlines Flight 007 had been cold-bloodedly blasted out of the skies by a missile-firing Soviet interceptor, with an all but certain loss of 269 lives." --Sept...
...former Navy helicopter pilot who had a long, safe career, I am incensed at the tragedy in which U.S. military planes shot down two friendly helicopters over Iraq's no-fly zone ((IRAQ, April 25)). I have many questions, but chief among them are, How can an interceptor justify shooting someone down without prior verbal warning? What was the visual-I.D. training that the pilots received? Have the tremendous budget cuts caused a reduction in the readiness and capability of our military? This is one of the more serious military accidents we have experienced in recent years. There...
Inglis admitted to TIME, however, that some aspects of the test might have enhanced the results and made it easier for the interceptor to find its target. The warhead, for example, was preheated before launch to 100 degreesF to provide a clearer infrared signature. The target warhead also carried explosives to increase the detonation and thus assist ground observations. Says a congressional staff member: "Either could have served to skew the tests...