ah carter.... covertly supported khomeini and encouraged him to depose the shah. leading directly to the hostage crisis and followed up with a nuclear powered Iran in the near future, and one that regularly kills american soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. for an encore returned the panama canal...
first some of the SM-3 missile intercepts were set up so that the launching craft did not know the time or location of the ICBM or intermediate range missiles. the GBM too has had equivalent exercises given that the flight path of russian or iranian ICBMS would be known. unless you think russia...
russian mirvs are currently 3 warheads per missile treaty allows 8 though. we have means to defeat mirved warheads. why don't you read up on the ABM tech before spouting off that they are invulnerable. also in case you are wondering currently the russians are abiding by a treaty with the US...
no because the ship board missiles are not really optimized for ICBM defense. they were created for short and medium range missiles. even though theoretically they could intercept a ICBM (if things went just right like the satellite shootdown) the reaction time for them and their opportunity to...