Hypersonic weapons are extremely difficult to track, like picking out one light bulb against a background of light bulbs. A new system of satellite-based detectors aims to solve the problem.
China’s test flight of a long-range hypersonic glide vehicle late last year was described in the media as close to a “Sputnik moment” in the race to develop new ultrafast maneuvering weapons. But even as senior U.S. military officials publicly fretted about missiles that are, for the moment at least, effectively invincible, the Pentagon was quietly making strides on an entirely novel way to help shoot down these weapons.
HBTSS is intended to solve this problem by continuously tracking long-range missiles from launch to impact. It will also have the ability to hand off critical information to ships, aircraft and ground forces, enabling them to fire their own missiles at incoming threats. The detection system relies on a new network of orbiting sensors, a critical part of a dense and multilayered constellation of satellites the Pentagon has already begun placing in low-earth orbit.
Other space-based assets already provide the U.S. with overhead infrared sensing. But the key characteristic that sets HBTSS apart is a requirement to generate what the Pentagon calls “fire control quality” tracking data. This is very precise information that can be used by terrestrial command-and-control systems to steer guided-missile interceptors against hypersonic threats.
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