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Are there down sides to building a manuvering TBM

It seems like talk about Chines ballistic missiles is all the rage these days.
with fans boasting of things like Missiles coated with laser reflecting materials, and missiles that can dodge rockets.

Last week, China launched another surveillance satellite, the Yaogan Weixing-10, the third of its kind and the sixth Chinese satellite launch this year. Chinese media says the satellite is intended for scientific experiments and crop surveys. According to this story, the three Yaogan Weixing-10 synthetic aperture radar and high resolution optical equipped satellites are flying in a formation akin to a maritime surveillance system.

The Chinese launch schedule for the rest of the year includes another remote sensing bird, at least two more military communications satellites and two more Beidou navigation satellites. The Beidou, or Compass, constellation is the Chinese counterpart to our own GPS constellation, the Russian Glonass navigation satellites and the European Galileo system; China plans to have 35 Beidou satellites in orbit by 2020.

Building out its space based surveillance and navigation is a key component of China’s military modernization, part of its push to better integrate its sensors and its many shooters. China’s ocean surveillance satellites, the Yaogan, form an important part of its burgeoning reconnaissance strike network and anti-access strategy.

China’s approach to attacking a U.S. carrier battle group, or other capital ships, in the Western Pacific is probably similar to that developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The most likely Soviet approach would have been a combined over-under attack with anti-ship missile carrying T-22M Backfire bombers and Oscar II attack submarines. Ocean surveillance satellites would provide the initial bearing and distance to the bombers and subs, and then active-radar on the missiles would handle the rest. If China is able to successfully develop the DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile, it would obviously form a key component of the over-under approach.

Read more: http://defensetech.org/2010/08/12/new-satellites-build-out-chinas-reconnaissance-strike-network/?wh=wh#ixzz0wQyqnHYY
Defense.org

http://defensetech.org/2010/08/12/new-satellites-build-out-chinas-reconnaissance-strike-network/?wh=wh

what is the real truth? can you make a missile maneuver in the terminal phase? How does this affect the CEP? you already chasing a moving target, am I correct? wouldn’t you need another booster type on the reentry vehicle with its own fuel? wouldnt this all need testing? discuss

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By: sferrin - 14th August 2010 at 17:43

It doesn’t have to manuver much at that speed, just a 3 degree change means the interceptor missile has to compensate by flying in the direction of another solar system, or the center of the earth.

PAC-3 has already demonstrated the ability to hit manuevering RVs.

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By: obligatory - 13th August 2010 at 04:23

It doesn’t have to manuver much at that speed, just a 3 degree change means the interceptor missile has to compensate by flying in the direction of another solar system, or the center of the earth.

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By: sferrin - 13th August 2010 at 04:12

Pershing II. 25 years ago.

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