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NAVFC
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 Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| bacasper wrote: |
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Apparently they hit one in space under test conditions last year. Very interesting. I remain doubtful that we could stop a long-range ICBM, however.
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| April 27, 2007: In a first-of-its-kind dual missile defense test yesterday, Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) demonstrated simultaneous ship engagements against both cruise and ballistic missile targets. The interceptors included an SM-3 Block IA missile, which destroyed a short-range ballistic missile target in space while an SM-2 Block IIIA engaged a cruise missile threat at a lower altitude...[my emphasis] |
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Wasn't that the test in which the missile was equipped with a transmitter so the interceptor could hone in on it?
Any such retaliation is easily defeated by launching multiple dummies, no? |
I dont recall a transmitter. But even so, about 2 weeks before Obama entered office if you recall a test was done using a a real missile (no explosive warhead, but a weight) fired in real time, with real time circumstances a live test and they hit it. |
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NAVFC
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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However I am mystified by the fact that Beijing doesn't seem to have raised any alarm over the taepodong situation.
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I can't find the article I read a few weeks ago, but it said something like 'all northeast Asian nations agreed' to the US plan to knock out the missile. Assuming the reporter wasn't just making that up and that the governments of the states involved did agree, that would include China. China can't possibly be happy about any neighboring country developing a missile that could hit all of China. |
We will find out... I wonder what the North Korean reaction will be. Furthermore I haven't heard any north korean sabre rattling as to what they would do if their missile is downed. |
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