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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (491351)6/29/2009 2:20:46 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1576680
 
"Mobile GBI."

Do you have a link that this has been deployed to Hawaii?

"While it is true we haven't had occasion to test these devices in a live attack"

So? I didn't say that was a criteria. What hasn't been done is a test with ICBMs or a reasonable facsimile thereof. They tried that at first, and the systems in question failed those tests. So, they scaled back to TBMs with no decoys. That is when they started having successes.

"That you were ALL wrong about it, you just can't stand it"

When SDI was first proposed, it was supposed to save us from an all out attack by the Soviets. Thousands of missiles and tens of thousands of warheads. Here we are almost 30 years and hundreds of billions of dollars later, and we are just starting to deploy systems that don't have anywhere near that capacity. We might be able to kill an ICBM lofted by a little two-bit power like NK if we exercise our maximum capacity at the moment, fielding systems that haven't been tested recently for this sort of thing.

Hundreds of billions, 30 years. No, I'd say the naysayers got it pretty spot on. At least so far. We are still a long, long way away from SDI as it was first marketed. Nobody has ever doubted that we could stop a handful of missiles, eventually. It was the all out attack that was doubted. Because only 3 or 4 need to get through to destroy us.

What are doing is making the world safe from Scuds. Which isn't a bad thing, just not what was promised. Now, it can make powers like India and Pakistan feel a little queasy. The nuclear capacity they have developed is being made obsolete.
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