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I'm not really sure what the point would be? Getting a hunk of metal moving quickly towards the target is most of what a missile does. In a conflict where air
by Symmetry 8y ago
I'm not really sure what the point would be? Getting a hunk of metal moving quickly towards the target is most of what a missile does. In a conflict where airframes are a limited resource I don't see why it would make sense to waste payload on decoys when you could just load up more missiles.
- hedora 8y agoYou only need to get one nuke through. Also, compared to building additional missiles, having your missile split into a bunch of decoys and a few warheads is fairly inexpensive.
- Symmetry 8y agoWait, where are nukes entering into this? The article was about tactical defenses for warplanes, I don't think anybody still has nukes in their air-to-air arsenals after the 70s. When you're talking about ICBMs with MIRVed warheads decoys can make a lot of sense because in space a 10 kg balloon looks a lot like a 500 kg warhead. But in the atmosphere they're very easy to tell apart and nobody talks about decoy missiles.
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