Decoy discrimination using ground-based high power microwaves

James G. Small; Wilfried O. Eckhardt; Frank Chilton

doi:10.1117/12.951814

25 July 1989 Decoy discrimination using ground-based high power microwaves

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

Proceedings Volume 1061, Microwave and Particle Beam Sources and Directed Energy Concepts; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.951814
Event: OE/LASE '89, 1989, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

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.

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James G. Small, Wilfried O. Eckhardt, and Frank Chilton "Decoy discrimination using ground-based high power microwaves", Proc. SPIE 1061, Microwave and Particle Beam Sources and Directed Energy Concepts, (25 July 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.951814

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