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Title: MEDUSA: A concept for countering multiple targets from theater ballistic missiles. Final report

Abstract

We feel that the concept of intercepting a fractionated threat from a tactical ballistic missile is potentially feasible and would have very high payoff for the defense. Many other concepts have been suggested to solve this problem, although they have mostly been more futuristic approaches, e.g. aircrafty based lasers. We also believe that current technologies are not likely to be adequate for the expected types of very small submunition payloads, especially in the presence of relatively simple countermeasures. The MEDUSA concept, or its clones, may very well provide a vehicle for the study of less stressing threats, e.g. separating warheads and provide a lethality enhancement for non-deployed payloads. An opportunity also exists to investigate alternative technologies, such as the explosively-formed ``disk`` idea. The use of high-precision, limited field-of-view sensor-fuzed munitions is a subject of interest in other Defense Department programs and may have application to the important area of theater missile defense.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10173238
Report Number(s):
UCRL-ID-118200
ON: DE94016634
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-48
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Apr 1994
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE; MISSILES; INTERCEPTION; BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE; DESIGN; PLANNING; MILITARY STRATEGY; PROGRESS REPORT; 450500; STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE

Citation Formats

Peglow, S G. MEDUSA: A concept for countering multiple targets from theater ballistic missiles. Final report. United States: N. p., 1994. Web. doi:10.2172/10173238.
Peglow, S G. MEDUSA: A concept for countering multiple targets from theater ballistic missiles. Final report. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10173238
Peglow, S G. 1994. "MEDUSA: A concept for countering multiple targets from theater ballistic missiles. Final report". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10173238. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10173238.
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abstractNote = {We feel that the concept of intercepting a fractionated threat from a tactical ballistic missile is potentially feasible and would have very high payoff for the defense. Many other concepts have been suggested to solve this problem, although they have mostly been more futuristic approaches, e.g. aircrafty based lasers. We also believe that current technologies are not likely to be adequate for the expected types of very small submunition payloads, especially in the presence of relatively simple countermeasures. The MEDUSA concept, or its clones, may very well provide a vehicle for the study of less stressing threats, e.g. separating warheads and provide a lethality enhancement for non-deployed payloads. An opportunity also exists to investigate alternative technologies, such as the explosively-formed ``disk`` idea. The use of high-precision, limited field-of-view sensor-fuzed munitions is a subject of interest in other Defense Department programs and may have application to the important area of theater missile defense.},
doi = {10.2172/10173238},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1994},
month = {Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1994}
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