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MIRV'd warheads are countered by MIRV'd interceptors. The MOKV was originally couched in terms of redundancy to handle decoys but I am now seeing some acknowledgement that they indeed are able to be used for MIRV'd warheads.The key to a large scale attack is effective discrimination and/or boost phase interception prior to bus deployment. No decoy will ever be able to counter discrimination based on mass. Mass affects motion behavior in response to non-uniform gravitational perturbations, response to active probes from atomic particles or high frequency EM (X-ray or Gamma ray), wideband blackbody emission profile (especially when the mass is radioactive), and LIDAR velocity signatures (wobble components in 3 axes). There are probably others but the use of cheap/dumb/lightweight decoys will become less effective over time.
MIRV'd warheads are countered by MIRV'd interceptors. The MOKV was originally couched in terms of redundancy to handle decoys but I am now seeing some acknowledgement that they indeed are able to be used for MIRV'd warheads.
The key to a large scale attack is effective discrimination and/or boost phase interception prior to bus deployment. No decoy will ever be able to counter discrimination based on mass. Mass affects motion behavior in response to non-uniform gravitational perturbations, response to active probes from atomic particles or high frequency EM (X-ray or Gamma ray), wideband blackbody emission profile (especially when the mass is radioactive), and LIDAR velocity signatures (wobble components in 3 axes). There are probably others but the use of cheap/dumb/lightweight decoys will become less effective over time.
