@downix @RupprechtDeino Needs must when the devil drives. The SM-6 needs the delta vee a SM-3's 21 inch diameter booster can provide to get on a reciprocal trajectory for an HGV.
Granted, you are going to need ablative coating for the upper atmosphere as opposed to exoatmosphere flight.
Also granted
Granted, you are going to need ablative coating for the upper atmosphere as opposed to exoatmosphere flight.
Also granted
@downix @RupprechtDeino ... you are going to have issues with ionization for the radar at high supersonic speed requiring a back up sensor.
And likely the SM-6 stage atop the SM-3 booster will need a AMRAAM type multiple pulse solid rocket motor modification for the HGV intercept profile.
And likely the SM-6 stage atop the SM-3 booster will need a AMRAAM type multiple pulse solid rocket motor modification for the HGV intercept profile.
@downix @RupprechtDeino Raytheon's corporate engineering culture is capable of these sorts of modifications rapidly because they have had a stable and long experienced engineering team for the Standard missile that almost no other defense contractor in the world can match.
@downix @RupprechtDeino HGV's are going to require down range AEW able to track and hand off telemetry to one of these 21-inch SM-6.
And the AEW will need cueing from space based IR sensors.
And the AEW will need cueing from space based IR sensors.
@downix @RupprechtDeino Long term, the HGV threat is best addressed from LEO based lasers.
The heat budget of an HGV is such that the point heat and turbulence induced in a HGV by a high power laser very deadly.
The heat budget of an HGV is such that the point heat and turbulence induced in a HGV by a high power laser very deadly.
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