Sentences with phrase «boost phase of flight»

In that program, the Missile Defense Agency spent billions of dollars and over a decade to get a laser - rigged jumbo jet to destroy a ballistic missile in its boost phase of flight.

Not exact matches

One thing the U.S. doesn't appear to be working on now — which is a bit of a mystery to me — is so - called boost - phase missile defense, which attempts to hit the missile while it's still burning early in flight.

Lamb and his colleagues calculated that hitting an intercontinental ballistic missile during its boost phase requires defensive weapons within 250 to 600 miles of the flight path.