SUPPRESSION ATTACK - MARV’S (WITHOUT DEFENSES)
SLIDE 72
Now to shift the emphasis a bit, and look at the impact on some "normal" strategic systems and concepts.
On this slide we show the basic idea of suppression attack against an enemy’s ground-based missile force in fixed-site silos.
The attack uses multiple maneuverable re-entry vehicles (MARVs) delivered by a single carrier missile which acts as a "bus." The bus ejects the
MARVs at the appropriate time, and each of the MARVs heads toward its predesignated target, maneuvering as it re-enters the atmosphere and proceeds to the target. The maneuver makes conventional intercept of the
MARV by conventional anti-ballistic missiles more difficult.
In this manner, missile silos without defenses may be caught by
surprise and destroyed.
The "bus" concept actually multiplies the number of targets a single launched missile can attack, and the maneuvering of the MARV increases the difficulty of defending the target area by orthodox means.