(Flashback) Missile Defense Test Failed As Support Arm In Silo Failed To Clear: General

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[AFPhys]

You ain't kidding!

However, I searched all the title variations I could think of, and four "keyword" searches looking at all the articles that appeared relevant, and didn't see anything...

Anyway, I'm glad for your "they've been replaced" note. It is funny how even some "stainless steels" are prone to rusting, and some even prone to being magnetized... unusual, but not unheard of.

As I said, it probably cost them all of a few bucks to replace these hinges and move on with our continued impressive American performance of Reagan's Star Wars!

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks for highlighting the reason for the failure.

It is important to get the story out there.

[RightWhale]

Metallurgy is an art. I tried the keyword thing for the first time just now. If you want to have 'rusty hinge' in it, say 'rusty,hinge' and it will be two separate words that can be searched on. There is more than one search function, one of them will search the keywords.

[AFPhys]

NO PROBLEM: the fault was entirely MINE for not communicating very clearly that it was an old article. I anticipated such a reaction by some people, and it was my intention while I was thinking about posting this that I immediately make such a statement, but then in the "heat of battle" I forgot to do so.

Again, I'm sorry to you and others who might feel at all embarrassed about pulling the trigger so quickly.

[XenaLee]

That's ok. LET the mainscream media keep reporting to their buds (America's enemies) that our missle defense doesn't work. We'll have a very 'special' surprise for our enemies if/when they decide to try to attack us. (hint: we no doubt have a LOT of weapons 'they' don't know about...and we intend to keep it that way...we just need to make sure the socialist DemRats, America's enemy within) don't find out.)

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There was a fabulously successful test 3 DAYS AGO! So the drive-by media decides to drum up a failure from last month instead.

[djf]

I thought most of our stuff is pretty hardened. Isn't half of it optical by now, anyways? I know alot of the spysats are.

[AFPhys]

"Metallurgy is an art": Don't I know it!

I've been trained in Materials Science, and it is incredibly complex, even steels and concretes - materials everybody believes they have some understanding of.

[Cindy]

No problem.
Thanks for the clarification.

[AFPhys]

It isn't only a matter of "frying" our own gear.

In addition, there would be more difficulty in monitoring the environment for some period of time.

Besides the political problems and such questions, why would we bother launching a nuke to kill a nuke when we are able simply shoot it down "with a bullet?"

[djf]

Well, we might have to worry about the environment if we miss... say the "environment" of St. Louis, for instance.

I dunno, just seems to me when you're in that position, I'd have more confidence in overkill and wasting a few of our xthousand warheads than put my prayers in hitting a fly with a bb gun from five miles away.

[boris]

We had a highly successful test on THAAD (Theatre High-Altitude Area Defense) recently. I've seen the video and it was awesome. Remember there are 'layers' in the system and THAAD is one layer that WORKS.

--Boris