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Originally posted by woj
"moving targets" have been shot down since WWII (or perhaps even earlier)...
Missiles follow a smooth path towards the target, so it should be fairly easy to track down its position, predict its future position and then nail it...
It's kinda like trying to bomb a train that just rolls straight towards the target...
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I bet it's easy to program it, yet you need a missile system capable of doing it. After all the missile that's in intercept course has to beat the earth's gravity in order to get in time. The ballistic missile has both gravity and inertia on its side.
Another thought ... up till now, ballistic missiles had no defences whatsoever because they were damn near invulnerable. If the Israeli system comes into heavy usege, I guess Iran (and others) will invest heavily in making their missiles invulnerable again. They could use decoys, increased speed, high altitude dispersal (multiple warheads), etc.