Re: Striking a Lunar target in the near future...

From: dave schneider (d_schneider_at_emulex.com)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: 20 Aug 2004 14:00:53 -0700

henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer) wrote:
> Derek Lyons <fairwater@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> >For impact, I'd think a drop straight in would be the simplest.
>
> Quite so. Stopping in lunar orbit, etc, would be costly and would have no
> benefits for this. Even the Surveyors, heading for soft landings, went
> straight in.

I think there may be a mission design problem lingering around this,
though. I would expect that any such base [that is, one capable of
doing malificent things to earthlings by design, and was built by some
sort of space traveler from either earth or elsewhere] would be able
to detect launches and/or departure from LEO parking lots. It should
certainly be able to detect incoming that didn't answer with the
correct IFF, for some range useful for defense.

One answer would be to loop at least 1 bomb around the backside of the
moon, and deflect it down once it clears the nearside horizon at a low
altitude. You may want to launch direct-to-nearside shots as decoys,
and masking the launch of the backhand shot. I'd make the forehand
shots live bombs because if they *do* get through, it will only help
the cause. However, it wouldn't surprise me that the backhand would
still get detected in time to defend against.

Is there any use in sending some so that they "come out of the sun"
from the moon base perspective? Could we put together a transtage
that could accomplish such a shot? The idea is that with the sun as
a background, it would be more difficult (at multiple) wavelengths to
detect the incoming, improving the chance of getting through any
defences. Keeping a small profile towards the target would help with
this, and you might make the insulating jacket out of stealth
materials.

What else could be done to get to the target with late or little
detection?

/dps

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