New Missile Defense Radar Passes Key Stage: Lockheed LRDR
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 20, 2017 at 4:28 PM
The Long-Range Discrimination Radar will be better able to tell apart different types of targets, as illustrated here.
As anxiety rises over North Korean rocket tests, the Missile Defense Agency needs better radar to tell threats apart. Which of those distant blips is an InterContinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) warhead capable of hitting the US? Which is a burnt-out rocket boaster coasting harmlessly through space? Which is a decoy warhead designed to make MDA waste some of its limited supply of interceptor missiles?
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