Hi wiz; Re: "Seems to me an engineer with 10% of the smarts of the defender, can defeat the missle system.."
While this is probably true, the purpose isn't to protect ourselves against the better engineered products of Russia (or China, for that matter). Instead, it's to defend ourselves against Iraq's ICBMs, which they probably won't have until 20 or more years from now.
And sure, eventually Iraq could engineer all the decoy stuff, but by then we'd be working on the next stage of defenses, etc.
The program would be mostly welfare for scientists and engineers, but there would be some military advantage hidden in there. On the other hand, who ever said that military expenditures are efficient?
Frankly, I'd rather see them put the money into landing men on Mars, but they don't listen to me. But most of the people arguing that the problem is impossible have other irons on the fire and don't appear to be entirely neutral on the subject of nuclear weapons.
-- Carl |
