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Three problems : while you're trying to stream missiles in slowly, the opposition is going to mass launch against your silos, cutting off your stream. Nukes pr
by chipsa 4y ago
Three problems : while you're trying to stream missiles in slowly, the opposition is going to mass launch against your silos, cutting off your stream.
Nukes produce broadband noise. Improved radars let you get much better signal to noise and see through it anyway.
And the warheads you're streaming in need to actually detonate to give noise. Otherwise you just get a debris field.
- schainks 4y agoA debris field of sufficient size is also noisy. MIRVs can have a couple decoy warheads whose job it is is to just release debris to create radar noise.
- chipsa 4y agoTheoretically, yes. But that is part of the point of improving the signal processing. And there's 4-5 different radars looking at stuff coming over the pole at Fylingdales, Thule, Clear, Cavalier, possibly at sea, depending.