Radar problems foil missile defense test

Radar problems foil missile defense test

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Washington (CNN) -- A U.S. missile defense test failed Sunday when a long-range missile missed its target because of radar problems.
The Defense Department said a target missile was launched from an Army test site at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands at 7:40 p.m.
Six minutes later, a second missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, to find the first one and destroy it.
Both missiles flew successfully, but missed each other because of a problem in the sea-based X-band radar, the department's Missile Defense Agency said.

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What chance is there for the existance of particle beam weapons, destroyer satellites etc, when the DOD can't even get relatively 'old world' technology like this to work?

If they have laser takedown then why are they even bothering with this?

I would have thought by now that this type of hardware guided by radar would have been pretty much sraightforward, so this failure is a bit of a shock, and leaves me wondering how good USA defenses really are?



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Could it be that the russians have nobbled the X band radar using scalar interferometry to show the americans they can interfere at a distance with their electronics.
I saw something a little while ago that stated the russians are using some technology at a distance over america and that the americans had no idea it was being used.

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That would make sense - certainly explain why so many missile tests seem to fail in different ways, when they've been doing them sooooo long.

Perhaps that's actually what they are doing, not testing their own stuff, but the capability of potential adversarys?

Thinking about it thats what some claimed was going on with the Norway spiral, so not a novel hypothesis, but it may be credible!