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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (491175)6/27/2009 5:25:32 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1575770
 
"Your argument, in effect, is that our anti-missile capabilities are worthless"

Not what I said. Just that they are not as far along as you seem to believe. This scenario has never been tested with anything other than the Arrow. Which isn't in place in Hawaii. Several Patriot batteries should have some success. But they would fire a lot more than the standard 3 or 4 missiles in a salvo.

"But we have at least three viable approaches to shooting down any number of missiles they may be able to muster."

Uh, no. We don't. Arrow could do it, but it hasn't been deployed to Hawaii yet. Patriot might do it, but we would have to rely on numbers to have any assurance. Aegis hasn't been tested for that scenario, it is still in development. It might work, but it might not. Assuming any complex system will work in an untested scenario is a fools game.
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