Re: Further thoughts on hitting with lasers

>> While I don't have direct experience with them, I'm sure NORAD uses a
battery
>> of radars to keep track of the God-knows-how-many objects that are
floating
>> around in orbit up there, and I *think* they track things as small as
a
>> quarter, maybe a bit smaller. Impossible to do visually.
>>
>
>One thought, would this not lead to stealth muntions, muntions which
are
>harder to detect and therefore intercept. Or muntions which on closing
with the
>target
>or being hit with a radar beam of a certain strength ( ie active
tracking vers
>passive search)
>deploy a large number of warheads, some decoys etc to swamp the
defenses.

A-yup. Which meant the technology of the detecting/tracking system would
then have to improve to compensate, which means the munitions would have
to re-stealth themselves, ad nauseum.  :-)

Mk
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