Originally posted by chinawhite
This is comng from a report in chinese about the use of ballistic missiles attacking aircraft carriers. The brief run down is a ballistic missile using the guidence of a Anti-ship missile and the normal warhead combined with TVM guidence used on SAMs or a similar method.
Using your infra-red scanners then the data links getting information from aircraft or ground based radars give you a pretty precise place. Ballistic missiles were using inertial guidence and still got with-in 50 CEP for a missile aiming 10,000km away.
imagine a shorter missile with a lot better technology. Again you dont need to be spot on the money. 50 meters 100 meters is not a long distance for weapons and espically one which explodes and heads of little bullet like balls come out
I don't think the US SPY radars wouldn't have any problems tracking an incoming warhead, after all they have been successful 6 from 7 times in interecepting ICBM warheads during testing ( using the SM-III missile ), which move much faster than IRBM warheads.
Spy sateillites tracking missiles in space?. It might see a lanuch by hell no tracking a 22k/s missile or even guidening a missile towards it
As has been pointed out PSY radar stands for Surface Phased Array. It can easily track ballistic targets, whgat did you think that a RV could
outrun radar waves lol.
Tested on a ICBM?. the SM-III is being designed for a regional conflict like the middle east where americas forces would be concentrated and its military gear would be there to watch over the area.
This is quite stupid since the small number of american sateillites could not covered all of chinas east coast nor all the counter measures china is building(refer to china-defence.com for information)
This will not be one missile but more than one to achieve a higher goal. The basis of the NTW is for the sateillies or other systems to actually see the lanuch and if it didn't bye bye carrier.
However, the PLA would need to make substantial advances in missile guidance and countermeasures in order to achieve the very high precision required to attack a moving target. To do so, the US Office of Naval Intelligence noted: "The current TBM force would be modified by changing some to the current missiles' re-entry vehicles to manoeuvring re-entry vehicles with radar or infra-red seekers to provide the accuracy needed to attack ships at sea
To do this, the PLA would have to accomplish significant miniaturisation and stress hardening for RV-sized radar packages. In addition, the PLA would have to significantly improve its surveillance system in order to adequately target its anti-ship ballistic missiles.
www.janes.com...
Raytheon's next hit-to-kill success with the sea-based STANDARD Missile-3 occurred on 11 December 2003. Between January 2002 and late 2004, the Aegis BMD system had successfully intercepted targets in space four times with SM-3. In all the flight tests, the SM-3 was launched from a US Navy cruiser under increasingly realistic, operational conditions.
On 24 February 2005 the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System and Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) destroyed a ballistic missile outside the earth's atmosphere during an Aegis BMD Program flight test over the Pacific Ocean. The Feb. 24 mission -- the fifth successful intercept for SM-3 -- was the first firing of the Aegis BMD "Emergency Deployment" capability using operational versions of the SM-3 Block I missile and Aegis BMD Weapon System. This was also the first test to exercise SM-3's third stage rocket motor (TSRM) single-pulse mode. The TSRM has two pulses, which can be ignited independently, providing expansion of the ballistic missile engagement battlespace. The SM-3 was launched from the Aegis BMD cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) and hit a target missile that had been launched from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii.
The Aegis weapons system is a surface-to-air integrated weapons system. It is designed to defend the fleet against any airborne threat. The heart of the Aegis system is the AN/SPY-1 Phased-array radar system coupled with the AN/UYK-1 high-speed computer system. This combination is able to detect incoming missiles or aircraft, sort them by assigning a threat value, assign on-board Standard surface-to-air missiles, and guide the missiles to their targets. Aegis can track up to 100 targets at any given time. The radar panels are flat structures, mounted to give 360 degree coverage around the ship. These are an improvement over the old rotating type of radar in that there are no moving parts. The old rotating radar covered ONLY the area they were scanning. Phased arrays switch rapidly and cover the entire range around the ship in milliseconds.
Aegis BMD testbed initiated a series of increasingly complex missions to evaluate SM-3 design capability while the program prepares for potential emergency tactical availability. The first mission of this test series, Flight Mission Four (FM-4), was flown on 21 November 2002 resulting in a third successful intercept for the program. This mission demonstrated the ship’s crew and system response times necessary to track, engage, and intercept a ballistic missile target early in flight during its ascent phase (prior to apogee). FM-4 also provided a key verification of SM-3’s capability to accurately hit the target at a predefined point for lethality which, for this test, was forward of the target center. The KW impacted within centimeters of the aimpoint, completely destroying the target avionics section.
In FY03, two intercept attempts of a unitary target in its ascent phase were conducted. In the first test, the Aegis BMD element successfully intercepted the target. Using a newly designed divert system onboard the SM-3 missile, the Aegis BMD failed to intercept the target in the second FY03 test. The cause of the failed intercept has been attributed to a malfunction in a divert valve in the attitude control system onboard the kinetic warhead. Testing continued based on the consistent performance of the sustained pulse mode, while mitigation options were evaluated.
In FY03, the operational robustness of the Aegis BMD Block 2004 test program was enhanced by increased operational realism in the test strategy. Efforts to add operational realism as part of the developmental test strategy provide significant risk reduction in advance of operational testing and potential deployment of the element. The planned growth in flight test realism is consistent with the maturity of the system. Although the Block 2004 flight test plan include many operationally realistic aspects, some important operational scenarios remain untested by the end of the Block 2004 test program. These include multiple simultaneous engagements and separating targets. Development and integration of critical technologies pertaining to threat discrimination (e.g., AWS discrimination logic, radar and infrared seeker upgrades) and missile propulsion (e.g., kinetic warhead divert system, SM-3 booster propulsion) could improve operational capability as they are introduced in Block 2004 and subsequent upgrades.
.Cost effective maybe, but other
systems are being developed like lasers electric jammers and other things like that mini killer satillites which just attach themselves and disables a
sateillite. But if there are 100+ satillites that were claimed it would be very difficult throwing dirt up in sapce 
