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Decoy discrimination using ground-based high power microwaves

1989; SPIE; Volume: 1061; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1117/12.951814

1996-756X

James G. Small, W. O. Eckhardt, Frank Chilton,

Radar Systems and Signal Processing

An inportant problem in strategic missile defense is discrimination between decoys and reentry vehicles. During midcourse flight, a ground-based HPM directed energy system could distinguishably modify (by a physical damage mechanism) the radar signature of decoys. A very large ground-based transmitting station imposes unique requirements on its phased array antenna and on the RPM sources which will power the array.