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| Planned US missile shield blind to nuclear weapons |
| 2011-02-04 |
 A 2007 briefing by General Patrick OÂ’Reilly, director of the US Missile Defence Agency, disclosed that the radar system would be unable to detect long-range missiles in the launch phase because it could only see in a straight line, not over the horizon. Better get DARPA to work on that one right away. By the time the radar "saw" the missile, it would be too late to launch an interceptor in time to stop it striking its target. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #6 TOPIX/WORLDNEWS > [Controversial Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara] JAPAN SHOULD DEVELOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO DEFEND ITSELF, agz China + DPRK. ISHIHARA = Iff Japan had NucWeaps, CHINIA would not had encroached on the SENKAKUS [China = Daoyus/Daoyutai], + no NORTH KOREAN abduction of Japanese Citizens. * ASAHI NEWS > RUSSIA: SOUTH KOREA FIRMS MAY JOIN KURILS PROJECTS, arguing that Russia can invite any number of Third-Party Nations to collude in dev the former Japanese Kurils irregardless of its dispute wid Japan. IMO this is a PCORRECT-DENIABLE SLAP AT SCO-CSTO ALLY + "STRATEGIC PARTNER" CHINA, + ultimat NORTH KOREA as well, by Russ NOT overtly inviting China or North Korea first before South Korea??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-02-04 22:59 |
| #5 Seriously, does ANY reporter actually do some fucking homework or do they just go with what is handed to them? The Brit press is either 100% cheerleader on British ops or 100% critical on American ops. It is also 100% amateurish on both. But it's not alone in this. The Wall Street Journal had a reporter (Greg Jaffe, who now works for WaPo) call a carrier a "battleship". |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-02-04 19:06 |
| #4 Shoot Darth, most reporters don't even rely on what is handed to them but instead make stuff up on the fly to fit preconceived notions and ideological bent. |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2011-02-04 16:45 |
| #3 Um... radar only works on line of sight. There are also the cruisers like OS said, satellites and other systems to see a launch, track the missile and warhead. Seriously, does ANY reporter actually do some fucking homework or do they just go with what is handed to them? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-02-04 15:34 |
| #2 Duh. That's why we have the Aegis cruisers and the mobile radars on those large barges. Its a SYSTEM not a single site. Multiple radars, multiple engagement zone, multiple weapons, starting with the modified Standard III ER+, THAAD, mid course and terminal interceptors. This sint exactly news - here is an article from 2007 about the mobile radar and how it ties back to the BMD in CONUS. http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Boeing_Announces_Completion_Of_Sea_Based_Radar_Mooring_System_999.html SBX Sea Based X-Band radar |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2011-02-04 13:01 |
| #1 But the (update the radar - ed) plan was abandoned by President Barack Obama in September 2009, on the basis that the threat from Iran could now be countered by shorter-range systems. If defense in layers really worked, fortifications would have been built with inner sanctums. /sarc |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-02-04 12:53 |