I'm curious.  With Chinese military officials speculating they are going
to be at war with tiawan within 5 years, and the US indicating that their
missile defense shield may be deployed on tiawan...  (and let's leave the
political discussion out of this, please :-)

Are there other methods of knocking out or disabling a missile in flight
without being close to it?

Do any modern missiles use GPS, and if so does the US have the capability
of performing real-time modification to the GPS signal?  (I'm thinking -
determine the trajectory and most likely target, then change the GPS
signal incrementally so that the target is now located in the ocean - this
would work well for multiple missiles on multiple targets (sure, we moved
New York to Michigan which knocked california's missiles into the ocean,
but is that *really* an improvement?  MI may not think so... ;-))

What are typical guidance systems used for missiles?

I'm assuming there are accelerometer/gyro guidance, but can that be very
accurate?  Are ground based radio systems in wide use?  Is Russia's GPS
equivilant system in use at all?

Anyway.  Just some musings I've been having recently...  I suppose this
has a lot to do with robot guidance, as well....

-Adam




The article about the war prediction I read is here:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21634

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