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In order to intercept a missile the anti-missile must
approach
the missile in close proximity to it, so a short-range
throwaway
laser-gun, run on the rocket fuel, can disable it.
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What if the anti missile missile has an anti anti anti
missile missile laser laser on it? |
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti anti anti-missile missile
laser. I'm just not anti anti anti anti-missile missile laser
either. |
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Will we be using laser powered missiles ? |
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Just shoot a good EMP. Problem solved. |
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This Idea makes certain assumptions that are not
necessarily going to be true. Consider a sub-orbital
ballistic missile --it has lots of heat shielding to protect
it from the heat associated with entering the
atmosphere at very high speed. A laser is probably not
going to work against that missile, so an anti-missile is
needed. |
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This Idea basically says, "Put a laser on the ballistic
missile to shoot down the anti-missile." That sounds
OK, until you realize that the anti-missile doesn't need
to go quite as fast as the ballistic missile, so it won't
need lots of heat-shielding. You might think that is also
OK, but to protect the anti-missile from the laser, all
we need do is mirror-coat the anti-missile. There is no
reason to think a good mirror-coat can''t survive the
heat associated with the anti-missile's speed. |
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And the mirror-coat only needs to protect the anti-
missile from the laser long enough to get close enough
for its explosion to kill the ballistic missile. |
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"and the mirror coat only needs to..." |
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proof that you don't trust the mirror coating, and my anti anti-
missile might just actually work. |
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Still your mirror coating got me imagining the next generation
of soldiers under laser warfare... no more camouflage, enter:
shining armor! |
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A more practical solution would be an antimissile cannon. A big old cannonball will give that antimissile its comeuppance. |
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Plus if it turned out the antimissile was going to connect regardless and the main missile was doomed, it could fire its cannonball along its trajectory so that the cannonball would hit the intended target. That way at least the endeavor would not be a complete loss. |
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Ballistic missiles. They seem so 1960. Probably a bunch of bobbing drones flying along at 100 feet toting those Davy Crockett mininukes is what the war is going to have. |
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//a short-range throwaway laser-gun, run on the rocket fuel, can disable it.//
Especially if fired into it at high speed (á la bungston's cannonball). |
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