[sci.military] SDI update

GA.CJJ@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU (Clifford Johnson) (10/27/89)

From:      "Clifford Johnson" <GA.CJJ@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
The Phase I deployment of the SDI still envisages, as its key
component, Spaced Based Interceptors (Kinetic Energy Weapons) that
would destroy Soviet missiles in their boost phase.  The command to
strike would come from a Boost Surveillance and Tracking System,
without human intervention.  (It would be "switched on" in advance
of an attack.)  This month's Air Force Magazine gives an update on
SDI plans.  Actual Phase I deployment decisions are expected in
the mid-1990s.

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