Posted on 12/15/2009 2:16:59 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
A top Pentagon official said Monday that a US missile defense drill will simulate an Iranian attack, a departure from the usual scenario of a North Korean attack, according to Reuters.
"Previously, we have been testing the GMD system against a North Korean-type scenario. This next test ... is more of a head-on shot like you would use defending against an Iranian shot into the United States. So that's the first time that we're now testing in a different scenario," Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, head of the US Missile Defense Agency said at the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit in Washington.
According to O'Reilly, an Iranian attack would be more challenging than a North Korean attack because a missile fired from Iran would reach the US "more head on than from the side," and therefore relatively faster.
During the test, expected to cost about $150 million scheduled for January, the US would fire an interceptor missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at a mock-Iranian missile which would be fired from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
O'Reilly was speaking just days after diplomats expressed concerns over reports that Iran has been testing a neutron initiator, a key element in producing nuclear weapons.
A neutron initiator begins the implosion that ends with a nuclear blast, and as a component of the nuclear cycle has no use in civilian or military programs unless in the production of atomic bombs.
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I’ve got a better idea...
This assumes an overt launch. Iranian history of covertly supplying terrorists would make this the least likely method of delivery.
That is a fair assumption.
Turn of your breaker box in your house. That will give you some idea.
Can we ‘simulate’ beating to death the nearest muzzie towel head on that day? (we’ll stop before their death , that’s the part we’ll simulate) because if/when they do launch then every single one of them becomes a threat, especially the ones that have already infiltrated the west.
One of the most advanced portions of the Iranian program seems to be concealment. It’s not even certain that nuclear isotope signatures could pinpoint an Iranian origin at this point. If one were to go off.
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How do you simulate a couple of container ships a hundred miles off the coasts? Is it simulation be of missile firings from any two or three of a thousand ships in the ocean?
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