Posted on 09/28/2007 2:55:07 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif., Sept 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Riki Ellison, President of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), http://www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org/, was at Vandenberg AFB to view the ground-based interceptor launch from the Ronald Reagan Missile Defense site on Vandenberg AFB, CA and got to witness the successful intercept by one of our nation's ground-based interceptor missile (GBI) deployed there against a threat-representative long range target missile launched from Kodiak, Alaska. Ellison's overall appraisal of the test was characterized as "an overwhelming success with the 7th intercept of this system gives our nation and our public great confidence that our military has the capability to protect our population, territory and homeland from long range missiles." Ellison said "The remarkable technical feat demonstrated today for the 7th time clearly gives our country security and reassurance that the current 23 Ground Based Interceptors deployed in California and Alaska can and will protect our public from long-range ballistic missiles.
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We just need another 15,000 or so spread around the border to truly be safe from ICBMs.
Pro-active policy towards stopping rouge nations from obtaining missiles is the best way.
But failing that, if my city has an incoming warhead, and there is a 1 in 100 chance an interceptor will work.
Hell yeah, give me that chance!
What worries me the most about the libs is that this missile technology may end up in the wrong hands if it were up to them. Libs and globalists are of the opinion that all technology should be shared.
I agree wholeheartedly.
It was nice day for a missile shoot. From my perch on top of the mountain overlooking the pacific, you couldn’t ask for a better flight test.
“We just need another 15,000 or so spread around the border to truly be safe from ICBMs.”
Nope. Even the Star Wars profiteers can’t say the Russians and Chinese can’t depoloy simple decoy systems to avoid “star wars”, let alone use cruise missiles.
It’s a scam, a repeat of the 1980’s boondoggle. But this time it’s to fight imaginary warheads from imaginery missiles.
Decoys don’t move like the real thing.
Outstanding intercept!
Of course, the lefties have recently switched their argument from “won’t work” over to “missile defenses placed in Poland would stop a Russian or Iranian attack on the U.S., thereby destabilizing the world.”
Listen to me now, and believe me later when I tell you we have the ability to differentiate between a true RV threat and a decoy.
Funny thing is,
If it was ineffective,
Why do our enemies and less then allies get so upset about it! LOL
BTTT!
“Decoys don’t move like the real thing.”
Yeah, so the Russians and Chinese (probably us too) just toggle the warhead to look like all the others.
Done deal.
That’s typical of the left in this country. Anything that’s good and makes our country strong and safe is no good in their view. They hate this country with a desire to live under totalitarianism. I say this is money well spent. I thought communism died when the wall came down. Boy I was wrong.
This is what the Clintons held back for their eight years in the White House...
A step forward and a move in the right direction via sensibility.
Too bad the Dims will cutthat program out in the budget.
This is an inadvertently funny typo, since we are primarily interested in stopping the reds from getting us!
Because it is a loss of money transfer to them via the U.N. via our sovereign concerns.
Funny thing is,
If it was ineffective,
Why do our enemies and less then allies get so upset about it! LOL
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LOL! You sure caught me! Our enemies do get upset! Iran...well no, they don’t care about it. China...Yes, back in 2001 for a moment but then they like the Russians had a chat with their military experts. And the Russians, heck there was that Russian general who pointed out in public that one little conventional warhead could knock out the radar but then, after the London affair and other slights to Putin’s political manhood Russia resurrected it’s propaganda about the missile base and other things to recreate a Western threat...
But although I believe our enemies understand us and beltway boondoggles, I bet they can’t figure out why we would put the missile base and radar installation in two seperate countries...
If a warhead is headed for your city.
Can I assume you would rather NOT have this tool?
Are you actually arguing that?
Don’t forget the sea based interceptors on the Aegis cruisers.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/leap.htm
As long as induces enough uncertainty in the minds of our opponents it works well enough...
“If a warhead is headed for your city.
Can I assume you would rather NOT have this tool?
Are you actually arguing that?”
Yep. Even if I thought it might work...but I do not.
It is irrational for Iran to nuke London with a missile. If they wanted to disrupt our country they would sneak it in anonymously on a cargo ship. Therefore, we should divert all the Star Wars money, and even more, to financing inch by inch incoming ship searches 10 mi. off our coast.
That is a more rational use of our money.
Star Wars is a boondoggle. It was in the 1980’s, it is again now.
Come get some...
I will try to make their argument. "It won't work but the US, thinking it does, will act more readily in confrontations. Therefore we can't push the US as far as we could have if the US didn't have the ineffective system."
“Yep. Even if I thought it might work...”
Good luck with that.
I want this abliity provided to our military.
There are a myriad of situations that could produce an incoming warhead. Regardless of other methods, smuggling or what have you.
You dont lock your doors and leave your windows open as you propose.
Ask Gorbachev, I'm sure he would agree with you.
So was Reagan. I used to cringe when he would say that. At least he never acted on his crazy statements.
The American Aerospace Technology Denial machine is in full force!
Tell it to the Syrians and their super-duper Russkie Aircraft detection systems. Yeah. All the chicoms and russians have to do is whittle a decoy and whoopie, billions of boondoggle dollars wasted! Ha.
Challenge the disbelievers to a duel. If you don't believe in Missile Defense, then if an ICBM ever launches on your city, meet me downtown at intended ground zero before it hits.
If the missile defense intercepter works, I get to shoot you in the head. If it doesn't, then you get to shoot me.
Deal?!
“Tell it to the Syrians and their super-duper Russkie Aircraft detection systems. Yeah.”
Well, the Israelis were afraid of those systems pointed at Israel and made an elaborate left hook over Turkey to come in relatively safely from the north. Retreated that way too.
Better yet, have a few hundred interceptors (at minimum) available, so you don't have to depend on 100% performance
It’s a good launch from Kodiak. The previous one had a bad motor. There are 20 interceptors installed in Fort Greely and a couple more in California. This is great since it makes Alaska the first target and the warheads will fly directly over Fairbanks. Haven’t had a good fireworks show lately.
If the missile defense intercepter works, I get to shoot you in the head. If it doesn’t, then you get to shoot me.
***I get to hold the gun and the bag of money.
The 1980s star wars defense wasn't a boon doggle. It was a carefully thought out plan by Ronald Regan to drive the Russians to bankruptcy and it worked.
BTW, cruise missles are easily defeated as they fly much slower than balistic missles and can usually be taken care of with guns, not missle interceptors.
“The 1980s star wars defense wasn’t a boon doggle. It was a carefully thought out plan by Ronald Regan to drive the Russians to bankruptcy and it worked.”
Myth. Yes, the defense build up of the 1980’s did help, but it had about zilch to do with the relatively inexpensive enterprise of thinking how to avoid interceptor missiles. The Soviets went “bankrupt” trying to match our navy, new ground weapons and upgrades, and manpowerincreases. Afghan war did them in too...especially for reason of Saudi flooding the oil markets.
Rules of Engagement trump national security these days...
“Fixed fortifications are monuments to man’s stupidity.”
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON, JR. QUOTATIONS
Some short range interceptors are based on navy vessels.
the thing is people usually dont attack where you want them to attack
thats all
Nope, ballistic missiles work differently than long range missiles. They travel in space except during launch and reentry, which means you would need missile defense sites everywhere that a ballistic missile could reenter or you would need to use different technology (like missiles that are designed to operate in space, lasers, etc.)
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