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Possible technical question: how do people detect missile launches? Do they scan the skies? Do they have sound/vibration pattern detection? Satellites? Update:
by toxicFork 6y ago
Possible technical question: how do people detect missile launches? Do they scan the skies? Do they have sound/vibration pattern detection? Satellites?
Update:
In the article I see:
"Still, we have no idea what early warning system triggered the alert. America's infrared early warning space-based sensing layer stares at the earth from many vantage points in orbit day and night. Historically, it provides the initial warning of a ballistic missile launch via detection of the missile's hot boost-phase plume. These satellites, especially the newer ones, can also detect a greater variety of infrared events, as well, including artillery fire, aircraft crashes, smaller missile shots, and even the launches of cruise missiles. "
- smdz 6y agoI was wondering the same. Still not sure how they detect whether that is incoming or just flying to a different destination?
- toxicFork 6y agoI guess once you detect a launch you start tracking systems and making guesses, if you see it heading towards a particular direction, alert anyone in that direction. Once you get a decent trajectory, alert more specifically.
- hotfire911 6y agoAccording to reddit (1), it was part of an exercise and there was a mistake with accidentally issuing a non-exercise alert. (1) https://www.reddit.com/r/AirForce/comments/kblzkx/only_at_ramstein/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AirForce/comments/kblzkx/only_at_ra...