Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Anti-Balistic Missiles Now Message-ID: <1990Dec7.011307.474@cbnews.att.com> Date: 7 Dec 90 01:13:07 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 18 Approved: military@att.att.com From: "J. Taggart Gorman" With the potential threat of Iraq lobbing Scuds with chemical and biological warheads all over the Middle East, I was wondering what currently fielded weapons (defenses, take your pick) could shoot down an incoming warhead. I am talking battlefield systems here. I believe that the Patriot missile system has this capabilty and that the Israelis occasionly rattle their saber with their tests of their ABM, but what else is there to do this job? I am asking about the capabilities of all nations, not just the US. I think I once read the SA-10 can do it. Or how about a Standard on a Ticonderoga? If not, how does a carrier battle group defend itself from incoming warheads? Answers, anyone? | John Taggart Gorman Jr. | "I'm a no rust build up man myself." | | -Christian Slater | jtgorman@caslon.cs.arizona.edu | in 'Heathers'