Minuteman Rapid Retargeting

Abstract

The Strategic Air Command has validated a requirement to decrease the time it takes to retarget the Minuteman Missile. Air Force System's Command Ballistic Missile Office contracted with four aerospace companies to develop concepts to satisfy the Minuteman rapid retargeting requirements. The method that will be incorporated into the ICBM Integrated Electronics Upgrade program is still being debated. This analysis looks at the four studies and compares the study results against a base timeline and recommends a solution that will save the most time from targeting information generation in the launch control center to when the new targeting information is loaded into the missile's memory.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA192622

Entities

People

  • Douglas R. Hill

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Facilities
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • California
  • Classification
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Electronics
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • North Dakota
  • Reaction Time
  • Targeting
  • Targets
  • United States
  • Universities
  • Warfare
  • Workload

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Space