European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Battery of dramatic to next year Tow Pentagon plans a dozen or so major tests of new anti Masbie set including a giant new sensor and laser weapons. Eye the $520 million project involve to pouty modified Boeing 767 carrying a 5.5-ton infrared sensor left designed to track missiles and warheads hidden amid decoys and debris. In the Teeth sensor will use its 38,400 detectors to track missiles launched ram California and to try to distinguish warheads among them from decays. The decoys and warheads All. Unarmed will land in tha South Pacific. Melt hot Fol Moulto Ltd Lotta reflected limb my a focus of laser changes in Mirror beam is scattered surface offset by air turbulence. Distortions of beam. Aiming laser beams in a last of accuracy a Tow Power ground based laser is to Bounce its beam Oft a two fool Mirror on a satellite. To destroy missiles a bigger laser and Mirror might be used. Scientists will also test a special Mirror thai changes shape to compensate Lor atmospheric distortions thai can weaken a laser beaut. Missile launched from California prepares for year of reckoning by William Broad new York times after incubating Lor neatly six years in laboratories across Tho nation often under conditions of great Sarocy the diverse technologies of the strategic defense initiative Ore being readied for the most extensive and costly series of experiments in me program s history. Tha teals Are meant to show technical Progress Anci perhaps As important to convince a sceptical Cor Gre thai the controversial program should continue to be lavishly funded despite the nation s budget woes. To Date the program has received More than $16 billion to explore exotic Anil missile arms making 11 on of the biggest military research projects of All time these billions Tor research have been spent quietly even As debates Travo Fec Riby raged Over what deploying a rudimentary space based Anil missile system in the 1990s might Cost next year the Star wars program plans to conduct dozen or to major lasts of prototype sensors to track targets and o prototype arms to shoot targets Down these experiments include the first firing of a Hornin rocket designed to smash enemy warheads tha first flight of a giant  ton infrared sensor mounted atop Page 14 the stars and stripes Friday Decer