文档介绍：• INGWERSEN AND LEMNIOS
Radars for Ballistic Missile Defense Research
Radars for Ballistic Missile
Defense Research
Philip A. Ingwersen and William Z. Lemnios
■ Lincoln Laboratory’s involvement in ballistic missile defense began over forty
years ago at the time of the first launches of ICBMs and satellites by the Soviet
Union and the formation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
The Reentry Physics Program, started in 1958 and sponsored by ARPA, set out
to understand the behavior of hypervelocity objects reentering the atmosphere,
with the expectation that this research would lead to a means of discriminating
between warheads and decoys. The program, bined theoretical
analysis, laboratory experiments, and field measurements, provided a foundation
that soon led to other similar programs. The . Air Force, interested in the
performance of its own ICBMs against enemy defense systems, also initiated a
program of radar development and measurements similar to that of ARPA. As a
consequence, the Laboratory became heavily involved in ARPA’s Project PRESS
(Pacific Range ic Signature Studies) and ARPAT (ARPA
Terminal) programs and the Air Force ration Aids program. By 1963 these
three large programs, combined with related efforts in the development of radar
technology, occupied approximately half of Lincoln Laboratory’s staff. Fifteen
large sensitive radars designed for signature measurements were built as a result,
and Lincoln Laboratory had some role in the development of each. This article
traces the history of the measurement radars and the technology programs that
supported them. It concentrates on the four major radars at the Kwajalein
Missile Range. These radars continue to play a major role in the development of
ballistic-missile-defense systems and discrimination techniques.
in what was then essfully tested an ICBM. Second, on 4 October
called AICBM began at Lincoln Laboratory.