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...Shooting down a missile is no walk in the park. As the interceptor and target approach each other at six miles a second, the smallest problem means failure. A 2002 test bombed after the interceptor didn't separate from its booster. The reason: A single pin on a tiny integrated circuit broke after being violently shaken during the flight. Foam that had been there to protect the pin on prior flights had been removed, supposedly to improve the system's reliability. A 2004 test failed because an error in one line of computer code kept the interceptor grounded. The most...
...original dispute over the missile project dates back to a decade ago when the military contractor TRW Inc. was developing software which would enable interceptor missiles to differentiate real warheads from decoy ones...
...buyers, for whom it was mainly designed in the first place. Northrop will soon get a chance to prove that its long and largely successful p.r. campaign for the F-20 was justified: the Tigershark will go head to head with the F-16, which now dominates the fighter-interceptor market, in a computer-simulated...
...Before September 11, 2001, the Bush administration had identified China as a ?strategic rival,? and the complexities - and perils - of the relationship were underscored on April Fool's Day of that year, when a U.S. spy-plane collided with a Chinese interceptor and made a forced landing on Chinese territory in Hainan. The tense ten-day standoff that followed appeared to symbolize the inevitability of a collision between Beijing's rising strategic ambitions and Washington's traditional policing role in the Asia-Pacific region. But the attacks of 9/11 shifted Washington's foreign policy focus for the next three years...
Establishing a national ballistic missile shield has always been a case study in futility. The technology required to fire decoys—multiple warheads on one rocket that can hopelessly confuse interceptor missiles—is all too easy for a rogue state or terrorist group to employ but difficult for the United States to defend against, even after spending the $100 billion that the Congressional Budget Office predicts the shield will cost. (Of course, estimates such as these also usually fall woefully short of the final cost.) And now, with Russia’s new missile technology?...