Multiple Moving Protective Shelters.
Abstract
A method of waging a defensive war by using a multiplicity of movable (and moving), nuclear-hardened, protective shelters in each of which a plurality of ICBM missiles is carried. Each of the shelters is a surface effects machine that is dome-shaped, with a closed base, and that is movable above selected terrain. Each shelter supports, protects, and transports the missiles therein, and also serves as a platform from which the missiles are launched. The shelters are deployed and dispersed in a predesignated area of terrain which is relatively flat, and in such a manner as to generate (i.e., present) more aim points (i.e., approximately 7,000 targets) for a potential enemy nation than the presently proposed M-X deployment plan (i.e., 4,600 targets), while using the same number of ICBM warheads. Use of this method (with its multiplicity of movable protected shelters) will deter, if not prevent, a potential enemy nation from perceiving that it can launch a first strike against the United States and successfully neutralize all of the generated aim points.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 28, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADD009245
Entities
People
- Thomas G. Belden
Organizations
- United States Department of the Air Force