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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (491029)6/26/2009 11:20:30 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1575821
 

And how would we do that? People here seem to think we have this capability. We don't. True, we are testing some things like the Airborne laser, but it has never shot down a target missile, much less been deployed. While it might be fun to test it on any NK missiles, the odds of success aren't high. And would be a bad propaganda move if it failed.

As usual, you're FOS. Clueless.

While it is possible we would try and not succeed, it has been shown we kinetically kill a more difficult target than a missile.

Nobody really doubts we can shoot down individual missiles -- at least not anyone who understands what our capabilities are. The question of shooting down a large number of incoming missiles simultaneously is more problematic.

We have numerous capabilities.

We have no idea whether Airborne Laser will work. And even though boost-phase KEI systems are untested we have shown the technology works.

But there are numerous other options -- AEGIS Ballistic Defense (ABD) which work. There are ground-based interceptors that work. And there are terminal-phase PAC3s that work.

Your claim that the "odds of success aren't high" are in direct contradiction to the words of Bob Gates before Congress last month:

Gates told US lawmakers at a hearing Tuesday that the US would have a "high probability of being able to defend ourselves" if the North fired a long-range missile.

He said that US missile interceptors "are fully adequate to protect us from the North Korean threat for a number of years."

He added that if the North Korean "threat" should change, the United States could easily expand its missile interceptor force.

Now, who should we believe? You, or the Secretary of Defense?
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