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2008-06-06 Home Front: WoT

US military intercepts missile off Hawaii in first test since February

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Posted by Fred 2008-06-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I support ABM development against ICBMs, but not in Europe. In that venue, an enemy could target the launchers, with cruise missiles, and deployment would hand a launch-on-warning pretext to same. And Euro-polls suggest the public is lukewarm on being targeted. Spending billions of systems that locals will likely reject, makes no sense. Who the hell is fixated on Euro-ABMs? Smack them on the head, please. This is 2008, not 1948.

Posted by McZoid 2008-06-06 05:28|| 2008-06-06 05:28|| Front Page Top

#2 This would be a test of the SM-2 Block IV, not SM-3, missile.

Posted by ed 2008-06-06 07:06|| 2008-06-06 07:06|| Front Page Top

#3 AMD is fully functioning and is ready to see your modified nuclear/chemical SCUDs Iran and will raise bombing you back into the stone age while you can't hit us.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-06-06 08:06|| 2008-06-06 08:06|| Front Page Top

#4 "In that venue, an enemy could target the launchers"

Do you recall how difficult it was to even find the launchers during the first gulf war? Finding those launchers most often happens AFTER a missile launch and if the airspace is hostile, it is difficult to loiter around waiting for one to be fired. But even if you can, what happens to the missile that is on its way? So you just tell the people that they need to sacrifice their lives but you will get the launcher eventually if enough missiles are fired from it to locate it?

Better to knock down the missile AND get the launcher.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-06-06 11:40|| 2008-06-06 11:40|| Front Page Top

#5 crosspatch, I think McZ was suggesting that the bad guys would target our ABM lauchers first, not that we would hit the Scud launchers.

Posted by AlanC 2008-06-06 14:59|| 2008-06-06 14:59|| Front Page Top

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