Posted on 11/30/2020 9:50:38 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
The People’s Liberation Army Press Office itself could not have done a better job with this source material.
Proximity weapon. Many of our plane-launched air to air missiles work that way. Miss the target? OK..let it fly through a debris field.
Chicom propaganda.
No shock in a vacuum.
The author of this article believes it’s the U.S. that needs containing.
“With that detonation, the worlds tenuous nuclear balance suddenly threatened to come out of kilter. The danger of atom bombs being used again was already increasing. Now its grown once more.”
You can’t have a rational discussion with people that think like this. People and countries must be allowed to defend themselves.
Yes! Tell the chinks we’re going to make their country our test range if they don;t come clean about their election fraud!
“Sorry, I don’t think this capability brings us closer to unlimited thermonuclear war. Not seeing it.”
Agreed. It prevents rogue states (Iran, N. Korea) from attacking.
The US isn’t going to attack anyone with nukes.
It also prevents China and Russia from attacking.
Makes me wonder if the writer is on their side.
Wonder? There's no question in my mind.
So, being able to defend millions of Americans from dying horribly is now a bad thing.
The 4th Estate has become the 5th Column.
Complete paranoiac fantasy
The author is coming at this from a Cold War mindset. We no longer live in a world with 2 major nuclear powers and a handful of minor ones who could each be counted on to act rationally. Now nuclear weapons and their launchers are affordable by nations seeking to develop them independently (Iran, North Korea). These newer players cannot be counted on to act rationally. That is what the limited Aegis BMD is meant to do... give the US a capability to intercept a single missile or a very limited strike. It does not necessarily ‘scale’ to a national missile defense system capable of destroying a major strike.
Also, the author starts panicking about “Hypersonic” missiles. Give me a break! All ICBM’s are by-definition hypersonic before leaving the atmosphere and just after re-entry. What is ‘new’ is highly maneuverable re-entry vehicles that makes use of that re-entry speed to depart from a predictable ballistic arc. But if you can hit the ICBM at mid-course — as with the Aegis System — then you don’t have to worry about those. And Iran & North Korea won’t have those anyway.
“Until Biden passes the technology on to the Red Chinese.”
Yup, just like Clinton did when he did when he allowed his biggest donor LORAL SPACE headed by Bernie Schwartz
Was Yahoo trumpeting the end of MAD when China came out with hypersonics?
Is that what you actually intended to write? "Detente," after all, means "relaxation of strained relations."
Regards,
Oops, yes. I think I got spellchecked.
It’s “Hit-to-Kill” technology. As another said, the defensive warhead maneuvers to a calculated intercept point and ‘nets’ the incoming warhead. That high-speed, head-on impact will kill anything. There is no concussive blast in the vacuum of space. Nor do you want to go lofting low-yield defensive nukes over your own airspace. The electromagnetic pulse will wipe out your own infrastructure without the impact of a single enemy missile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime
But don't you see?! Now, if a Rogue State like North Korea fires a nuclear-tipped missile at the U.S., we can't do anything about it, except retaliate (presumably, with a fivefold nuclear counterattack).
But if this interception system is ever deployed, the U.S. could simply shoot down that missile heading for an American city!
Oh, the horror!
/liberal "logic"
Regards,
You assume it ends in the vacuum, when in fact, it is likely that incoming missiles will reach the atmosphere or at least the outer atmosphere where particles exist for such events.
I worked on KEW interceptors for 17 years before I retired in 2009. The interceptors kill RVs by direct impact. No net required. We worked on one prototype where the interceptor mechanically deployed a fixed array of penetrating rods after booster separation. Sadly, that program lost out to the current BMD interceptor made by Raytheon.
The US only has enough BMD missiles to defend against a very limited ICBM attack. We would need several thousand interceptors to substantially repel an all out attack by a country with Russia’s capability.
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