Damien Valentine wrote:
On Feb 12, 8:32 pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
They actually shot down a missile with the thing; and sci-fi fans will
be happy to know the beam really does glow red, just like in the movies:http://defensetech.org/2010/02/12/ab...ful-shootdown/

Pat

It looks like the filming was done in infrared, so I'm not surprised
that it glows.

The one with the red beam visible on it might be in visible light,
although it looks kind of indistinct for that, so you may be right about
it being in infrared.
The other one in B&W from inside the cockpit looks like some sort of
low-light image.
I'm trying to figure out what the "short ranged ballistic missile" used
as a target was; whatever it was, it was launched from a ship, used
liquid fuel, and its engine was still firing when the beam destroyed it
at something less than two minutes into its flight.
I had thought it might be a Lance SSM, but they don't have anywhere near
that long of burn time.
I wonder if they got hold of an actual Scud and used that?

Pat