Document Title : Extended Range Intercept
Technology
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AD Number: ADA338685
Subject Categories: ANTIMISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS GUIDED MISSILES
Corporate Author: ARMY STRATEGIC DEFENSE COMMAND HUNTSVILLE AL
Title:
Extended Range Intercept Technology
Personal Authors: Butler, Joseph H.
Report Date: 01 SEP 91
Pages: 260 PAGES
Report Number: ENV-160-F
Monitor Acronym: XA
Monitor Series: ASDC
Descriptors: *STRATEGIC
DEFENSE INITIATIVE, *BALLISTIC MISSILE INTERCEPT SYSTEMS, *THEATER
MISSILE DEFENSE, FLIGHT TESTING, FEASIBILITY STUDIES, LETHALITY, GUIDED
MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS, RADAR HOMING, CHEMICAL ORDNANCE, INTERCEPTORS,
SUBMUNITIONS, CHEMICAL PROJECTILES.
Identifiers: BMDO COLLECTION,
ERINT(EXTENDED RANGE INTERCEPT TECHNOLOGY), FLAGE(FLEXIBLE LIGHTWEIGHT AGILE
GUIDED EXPERIMENT), CHEMICAL WARHEADS, TMDBCE(THEATER MISSILE DEFENSE
BULK CHEMICAL EXPERIMENT)
Abstract: The Strategic Defense Initiative
Program, announced by former President Reagan on March 23, 1983, is an extensive
research program designed to determine the feasibility of developing and
effective ballistic missile defense systems. The program includes
research of tactical or theater missile defense technologies necessary
for the protection of ground forces from attacks by enemy tactical missiles. One
aspect of such technology is defense against tactical missiles accomplished by
intercepting and destroying a missile before it can reach its designated
target. The principles of the technology to be evaluated in the Extended Range
Intercept Technology (ERINT) program were initially demonstrated at lower
altitudes in the successful Flexible Lightweight Agile Guided Experiment
(FLAGE). The purpose of the FLAGE program included developing hit-to-kill
technology and demonstrating the guidance accuracy of a small, agile,
radar-homing vehicle. Provisions for the Theater Missile Defense Chemical
Flight Experiments (TMDCFE) have been included in the proposed ERINT program to
quantify theater missile defense (TMD) lethality against bulk chemical
warheads in the TMD Bulk Chemical Experiment (TMDBCE) and against submunition
chemical warheads in the TMD Submunition Chemical Experiment (TMDSCE).
Limitation Code: APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Source Code: 398346