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To: InterceptPoint

It depends on whether we have developed the capability, or have pi**ed away the thirty years since the Gipper proposed SDI.


15 posted on 07/06/2017 2:46:43 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: MUDDOG

Can’t be that hard to shoot down a slow rising rocket if you are firing from a ship within a few miles of the Korean Peninsula.


17 posted on 07/06/2017 2:53:01 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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To: MUDDOG

I would be fairly sure the US could do it against a small scale rogue yet.

Donald might be getting the taunting tweet ready for when it happens.


18 posted on 07/06/2017 2:53:07 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: MUDDOG
What I really wish we had pursued is Project Thor, aka. Rods from God. We would have the equivalent of a nuclear first strike without the radiation and having to cross the nuke threshold.


59 posted on 07/06/2017 3:58:59 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism wiithout Nationalism is a fraud.)
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