Drone Detection and Attack of a Missile in Boost Phase

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David A. Fulghum, Air-Launched BMD Enjoys Renewed Popularity. Aviation Week, Sept. 3, 2010.
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&id=news/asd/2010/09/03/11.xml&headline=Air-Launched%20BMD%20Enjoys%20Renewed%20Popularity

My comment:
(a) "(Aerospace DAILY, Aug. 20)" in paragraph 3
refers to

Amy Butler, MDA Eyes Missile-Detecting Infrared Pod. Aviation Week, Aug. 20, 2010.
http://aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=aerospacedaily&id=news/asd/2010/08/20/02.xml&headline=MDA%20Eyes%20Missile-Detecting%20Infrared%20Pod

(b) The reason for missiles to be "carried internally" is to avoid detection by raday, like a stealth airplane.
(c) Geography of Iran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Iran
("With an area of 1,648,000 square kilometres (636,000 sq mi), Iran ranks sixteenth in size among the countries of the world. Iran is about one-fifth the size of the continental United States, or slightly larger than the combined area of the western United States (Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and Idaho)"/

In geographical size, Iran is slightly smaller than Alaska.

I can not find teh length or width of Iran.

(d) US is also developing satellites (as in Space Tracking and Surveillance System STSS), besides drones, to detect missiles in booster phase. With the size of China, drones will not do.


-------------------------------Separately
An account of a survivor of German submarine attack.

Sam Hodges, Unsinkable spirit: Margaret Crow recalls fateful summer of '39, when she survived U-boat attack. Dallas Morning News, Sept. 3, 2010.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-uboatcrow_03met.ART.State.Edition1.35b0bdb.html

Note:
(a) SS Athenia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Athenia

* Athena is Greek goddess of wisdom.

(b) list (vi): "to tilt to one side; especially of a boat or ship"
(c) port (n): "the left side of a ship or aircraft looking forward— compare STARBOARD"

Both definitions are from www.m-w.com.

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