First, based on the consideration that the model for anti-missiles is a nonlinear and non-Gaussian problem, a model is built of guiding a missile towards an evading agile target in noisy environments.

A host of technologies under research, such as high-powered lasers to destroy missiles rising through the air, could be applied to anti-satellite warfare.

And every time a U.S. carrier strike group sails into this area where these anti-ship missiles are active — that, in and of itself, is going to raise tensions.