the boy will mess around and find out
Posted on 07/11/2017 4:43:05 AM PDT by Helicondelta
No, the rocket scientists told me already (I was basically quoting them overcoming my ignorance), they know there are issues.
What this all means is you cannot take an ABM (air breathing Missile such as a Patriot missile) to take out an ICBM.
Now you want more fun, get into curvature of the earth versus radar coverage then including intercept times. Note that the intercept missile is not in space waiting to engage, it is covering the projected point of impact. Which means it is earth based and has to be launched after the ICBM.
And now that I look at Your Homepage, I Thank You as well for Your Service.
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Gosh mister, an ICBM is launched, at what point of its flight path do we know where it is targeted to impact? Try to get within 100 miles for a point of impact. (let's ignore MIRVs for this response).
Can you say after it is on its downward path? So how much time does a land based missile intercepter have to engage to prevent damage to the target? Gosh mister, I hope you are smart enought to provide the data to stop this attack.
“I neglected to define ABM as an Air Breathing Missile:”
ABM refers to anti ballistic missile, not air breathing missile. It’s the widely accepted meaning.
All should be conscious of or remember that Bill Clinton sold the MIRV technology to China. He claimed it was so they could better launch our satellites for us.
I defined my understanding of ABM which I learned in the 80’s. Your widely accepted meaning was not perviously defined, nor was it used in the 1980s.
If a term is used I contend it is incumbant user to preclude misundertandings. The op did not define the term, I did and backed it up with reference.
So which is correct? Me that defined and referenced, or ABM as noted by you? Please provide previously ABM perviously defined in this thread before I defined.
Thanks again President Reagan for protecting us from bj klinton.
Yes. And I appreciate the fact that they are actually testing the THAAD (anti-missile system and radar and controllers) in the same direction and at the same latitudes as the Nork ballistic missiles coming back at Alaska and (later) the Washington-Oregon coasts. Testing a southbound missile by shooting at a northbound missile shot from the South Pacific Kwal. range north towards California’s Vandenburg test base isn’t sufficient.
Just a little bit surprised that the big 0 did not ax GMD.
as mentioned above, air-breathing missile is an older term, started way back in the early 50’s with the Regulus and similar programs. Now, replaced by cruise missile (AGM) in all texts and dialogs.
ABM is used for anti-ballistic missiles, starting back in Reagan’s time for the protection systems installed up north around the North Dakota and Wyoming missile and B-52 bases.
Reagan’s Star Wars defense systems were designed from the ground-up (including space-based systems and ground-launched systems) to upgrade and replace the much earlier anti-air missile systems like Nike, Nike-Ajax, Nike-Hercules, etc, but the Army’s new ABM capacity for its THAAD missile and Patriot defense systems (and the similar Navy’s AEGIS ABM upgrades) are up-rated (missile altitude, missile weapons, launch controls and launch responses and response speed, in-course tracking, fuzes, etc.) from the original THAAD and Patriot and AEGIS anti-air defenses.
But the up-rated THAAD and AEGIS changes use designs and sensors and controls and guidance inventions started from Reagan’s programs.
Yes, but we used our left hand to shoot it, so......
8 stars of gold on a field of blue. Alaska’s flag, May it mean to you.’The blue of the sea, the evening sky.....We paid tribute to the American flag and the Alaskan flag every school morning, many years ago then a prayer for good citizenship.
8 stars of gold on a field of blue. Alaska’s flag, May it mean to you.’The blue of the sea, the evening sky.....We paid tribute to the American flag and the Alaskan flag every school morning, many years ago then a prayer for good citizenship.
8 stars of gold on a field of blue. Alaska’s flag, May it mean to you.’The blue of the sea, the evening sky.....We paid tribute to the American flag and the Alaskan flag every school morning, many years ago then a prayer for good citizenship.
The North Star is larger than the other 7. The flag of Alaska consists of eight gold stars, forming the Big Dipper and Polaris, on a dark blue field. The Big Dipper is an asterism in the constellation Ursa Major which symbolizes a bear, an animal indigenous to Alaska.
Sarah Palin taught us that.
the boy will mess around and find out
I was just restating what the blonde Fox Tart was saying and she said it was THAD
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