In a Thursday April 19, 2007 article over at Wired - Defense, Noah Shachtman posts a Vice article critical of the ABL:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/
blog.wired.com/defense/
...missiles also spin as they ascend, and the laser may not be able to heat one spot up enough to explode the missile... To that, the laser-makers say, "We'll get back to you."
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My observation is that tests with THEL were against spinning artillery, mortars, and kaytusha rockets. They were all destroyed.
So do you think a spinning ICBM/SRBM will defeat ABL? |