Right— just announce to the World.That did not happen!! I am very skeptical of that capability.Why did we not do that ove japan? There are three points on enemy missile vulnerability. Launch pad , Apex and decent. we have zero apex ability and decent has both worked and failed because prior administrations have FAILED to promote STAR WARD from Reagan but rather promoted women and homosexuals in combat. I believe we have a major problem in interception of ICBMs. I hope I am wrong. We should not be letting them launch bottle rockets much less EMP Hydrogen bomb war heads. But we have great rhetoric.
The USS Ponce is in the fleet in the area, and has on-board lasers that have been proven in multiple tests..Look it up, lots of information.
That was one of the biggest mistakes the U.S. government has ever made. We should be on top of EVERYTHING... We have the brains, the money (except for that pesky debt and deficit! LOL)...and the manpower to get things like that done.
The purpose of this dealie was to provide a super stable platform at incredibly high speeds so that .... then they stopped talking. But its so you can mount a targeting system that moves at mach speeds to paint the mervs (At least to my way of thinking)
The guys who go into the pentagons ultadark areas don't come back all - man we waste so much money. Oh they say that we spend tons but its not like they are upset. They do say - its good to be on our side.