I”m assuming that their misled are GPS guided. Do the Chinese have GPS satellites seperate from ours? Can we scramble the guidance if they launch?
“Can we scramble the guidance if they launch?”
The US works with another thought process on nuclear attacks.
The first, a ground based defense system, or GMD, is designed to defend the United States against a “limited” nuclear attack. That means a strike with a handful of missiles, as opposed to a massive assault of the kind that Russia or China could launch. The United States relies on deterrence — the threat of overwhelming retaliation — to prevent Russia or China from ever unleashing missiles against us. In the case of North Korea or Iran, we would rely on GMD to knock a few incoming warheads out of the sky. This will be done prior to re-entry in space. That’s the approximate “midcourse” point in a warhead’s journey from launch pad to target. The Pentagon has spent more than $40 billion on the system already.
The GMD interceptors are 60-foot-tall, three-stage rockets. Each has a five-foot, 150-pound “kill vehicle” at its tip. In the event of an attack, interceptors would be launched from their underground silos. Once in space, the kill vehicles would separate from their boost rockets and fly independently toward their targets, at speeds up to 4 miles per second.
There are 37 operational interceptors — four at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County, Calif., and 33 at Ft. Greely, Alaska. So obviously these are placed to take out a small attack like Korea or Iran can produce, currently.
But to add insult to injury, Bill Clinton is responsible for the passing of the Missile Re-entry Vehicle program, MRV, to China, and they to North Korea. So their sighting capacity they currently use is a lot like our current system that has morphed from it from when it was passed to China by Loral and Hughes corporations approved by Clinton so they could sight their space shots in the late 90’s.
Tack that on to the computer systems Clinton sent to North Korea to be used for agricultural improvement, which they modified to enrich uranium, and the missiles they got from Russia, we have their current nuclear attack capacity. Thanks Bill.
rwood