Allegations that missile defense systems won't work have been made since the idea to make them was conceived - it's disinformation designed to bamboozle at least some of the population in the hope that they will oppose it, possibly causing the plans to be dropped, or at least delayed.
Consider the source.
Consider the source is indeed good advice. Here's a source:
gn.apc.org
One of the sources quoted is Theodore A. Postol, an arms expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who opposes the weapon.
More info about Postol:
Postol, a professor of science and national security studies at MIT and the author of many private and federal weapon reports, was a top Navy science adviser in the Reagan administration and has studied the issue of enemy countermeasures to anti-missile weapons for decades.
After the 1991 Gulf War, he challenged the Army's claims of success for its Patriot anti-missile system, saying it had, in fact, destroyed no Iraqi missiles. Though the Pentagon at first denied his assertions, it later conceded that initial reports of the Patriot success had been exaggerated.
Another source from the link I posted:
Nira Schwartz. A former senior engineer at the defense contractor TRW, Schwartz lost her job after challenging the claims the company was making about the weapon.
And another:
Michael W. Munn, a retired scientist for the defense contractor Lockheed and a pioneer in designing and testing anti-missile weapons, said, ``The only way to make it work is to dumb it down. There's no other way to do it. Discrimination has always been the No. 1 problem, and it will always remain that way.''
Can't help but find these sources somewhat impressive.
Bruce |
