MaverickSawyer
Acolyte of the Probe
Yikes! looks like the missile interceptor programs are about to go into high gear...
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Have you seen the latest performance on the SM-3 Block II missiles? If they wanted to, they could have swatted it down partway through the third stage burn!
Another option: how much microwave radar power do you think we could put on that target? The Japanese and South Koreans both have at least 3 Aegis-equipped ships. That should be enough to seriously degrade the electronics on any rocket that they should launch.
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Actually, they probably don't yet have a nuke small enough to be be lobbed "anywhere" by their existing launcher. In today's environment, posing a nuclear attack threat takes some more mature technology than 60 years ago. Didn't we watch this launch preparation in almost real time, studying close-up orbital pictures of the pad and the rocket, available to the whole world? How difficult that would be for US navy, to turn the thing into rubble if a slightest sign of a real threat existed?
Have you seen the latest performance on the SM-3 Block II missiles? If they wanted to, they could have swatted it down partway through the third stage burn!
Another option: how much microwave radar power do you think we could put on that target? The Japanese and South Koreans both have at least 3 Aegis-equipped ships. That should be enough to seriously degrade the electronics on any rocket that they should launch.