M14 Shooter
The Light of Truth
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You keep saying that, and you havent done a thing to support it.So, you don't mind spending billions of dollars on a system which will be useless in a couple years?
You arent paying attnetion.You're welcome to have that view, I do not. You're calling Threat A "Today's ICBMs" and Threat B "Tomorrow's ICBMs" then no defensive program can ever be considered useless.
Threat A is ICBMs from 'rogue states'
Threat B is a nuclear weapon smuggled into the country.
Fact remains: As you admit, no RV uses any of the defenses you described, even though ABM technology has been around for 50 years.Let me see... three failed systems and a shutdown system... good history lesson there. Glad we shut Safeguard down though... not a single missile got through even without it! (30 years of saving $$$)
You are. of course, the only person in the world that describes the 'bullet hitting a bullet' nature of the tests as 'insanely easy'. Perhaps that should tell you something -- but, of course, it won't.Yep. As I said, they didn't get progressively easier... they vacillated between insanely easy to kinda easy and back again as they reached the limits of the system.
Don't avoid my question -- answer it.Why are you changing the subject? Did the c-band transponder (beacon) feed information to the targeting system or not? Simple question. A yes or no will suffice.
YOU brought the transponder issue up, and so if yu really think its an issue, then you should be able to describe HOW and WHY it is an issue. Try doing that.
Or, you can admit that its NOT an issue and that you, again, were wrong.
Your call.
The only tests relevant to the NMD are the NMD IFT-X tests that I noted.So, in the tiny realm of infrared missiles... there are 12... that list, as is quite clear, shows all the other attempts at hitting missiles with missiles.
So, I'm still waiting for you to illustrate the "dozens" of tests that failed to kill the target.
Not that you have in any way been able to show.Of course I'm dead set against it... it's a waste of money.
Says he, who, until today, did not know that BMD technology is 50+ years old...Just because you're either A) ignorant of the military history of defensive systems...