Standard, Terrier and Tartar support missile defence over a much larger area. The quoted coverage is 90,792 square kilometres, compared with 64 per cent of New York State and 57 times Greater London. Monitoring that space produces a large volume of data to interpret. Humans had previously performed much of the central information handling themselves. Computers increasingly become necessary to help them maintain and act on the larger air picture.
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Missile defence expands the computer's workload
Expanding missile coverage creates more information than a human-centred control system can readily manage without computing support.