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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (120528)5/4/2008 11:50:26 AM
From: Think4YourselfRead Replies (4) of 306849
 
It's not BS and your friend is also right. You have drawn a faulty conclusion due to a lack of knowledge. The rocket technology is only getting better, while the defense technology is pretty stagnant. The current Iranian missiles are already invisible to the fleet's Aegis radar technology. IF we are going to start a bloody war, it's better to do it now, when we will ONLY lose the Fifth Fleet. When the next generation of rockets comes out (faster, greater range, "sneakier") our Navy is likely to be totally defenseless to them, at least until they can be retrofitted with whatever defensive technology eventually develops.

Those aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf might as well have big bulls eyes painted on them. A handful of Mach 2.5+ missiles (moving 30 miles per minute and invisible to radar), unexpectedly launched from the mountains on the Iranian border, would hit the ship's before the crew could even get to their battle stations. The pilots would still be running towards their planes.

At the missile speeds we are dealing with the Persian Gulf is a bath tub, and not even a big one. The ships in it are sitting ducks, no matter how well "protected" they are.
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