RE: beams and shooting at fighters

At 1:14 PM -0700 6/14/01, Damond Walker wrote:
>  Having said that...we need to project technology several hundred
years into
>the future.  We have beam systems that are capable of hitting a target
>anywhere from 12k to 36k+ kilometers distant yet we can't intelligently
>target an incoming swarm of missles or fighters?

Its not simple when those missiles and fighters are stealthy, doing 
everything they can to evade and are putting out decoys and false 
emissions to help you miss. ICBMs play this game already. Thats why 
the Anti-ICBM folks much prefer hitting the thing on Boost Phase 
(much more vulnerable there...).

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