23 Jul
2001
23 Jul
'01
2:48 a.m.
At 09:14 AM 7/22/2001 -0500, you wrote:
Point this baby at the ground...
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27248-2001Jul20.html
I wonder what the destructive mechanism is for this system? Heat by radiant absorption seems an obvious but impractical method. If it is, then as the article mentions there may be some inexpensive and practical countermeasures to such a system, such as making the exterior of the missile body into a multi-faceted mirror able to reflect both IR and radar energy (although doing the same for the nose cone might prove more difficult due to aerodynamics). steve