Who is the supposed attacker in the trailer? A rogue element would not have MIRV missiles
It is never made clear. It seems to have spontaneously erupted from somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
Nothing is certain. It looks like an implied False-Flag attack by someone spoofing the North Koreans. Not a very good movie. As a previous poster said, I felt like a fool watching it. I should have watched “Fail Safe” or “Dr. Strangelove” again. Or maybe The Bedford Incident.” Hell, watching “The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming” would have been more enjoyable. And least if I’d watched “The Sum of All Fears” I’d have the pleasure of seeing Baltimore nuked.
Don’t know, have seen only the trailer. The flight path starts well south of Korea.
Don’t know what rogue element would mean, but odds are not bad it is a single launch . . . of a MIRVed missile from a major nuclear power.
“Who is the supposed attacker in the trailer? A rogue element would not have MIRV missiles”
It’s not a MIRV it’s a single warhead heading towards a major urban city. They DSP satellite didn’t catch the launch it was caught in boost phase by X band radar. One of the story arcs says the DSP was blinded and compromised with also a cyber attack on it. Lasers on the ground can easily blind 1970s era tech this is exactly why Starshield is going up with thousands of hyper spectral imaging payloads laser data linked together to the AI Hivemind. Persistent stare won’t miss anything.
They purposely leave the origin unknown in the film, probably N.Korea via SLBM it’s caught over open water with an arc that shows a launch off the coast of N.Korea.
Its irrelevant as the movie shows once the balloon goes up everyone is launching or risking a first strike wipe out.
Spoiler alert: you never get to see if the single warhead hits and detonates not what the very Obambie looking prez final decision is it leave the view again on purpose to contemplate the ramifications of a rogue launch and GBI failing to smash it.
Truth is we need quad layer defences.
We need boost phase ship and airborne interceptors
We need ship based and ground based mid course interceptors with X-ray based enhanced radiation warheads or miniature kill vehicle’s that are coke can sized launched in groups of 50 or more on GBI and tens at a time on SM3 a swarm of MKV against MIRVS and decoys.
We need exoatmo terminal phase again with MKV on a SM3 land based around key cities using the new trailer mounted VLS cell module.
We need very fast SPRINT type 100G endoatmo terminal phase interceptors these can be VLS based as well single stage all propellant with a command guided pencil beam to cut through the mach 10+ plasma these should have 10kt nukes tips as they are the final resort using nukes is warranted and the only assured kill method in terminal phase. You don’t want nukes after the mid course phase above your own county it blinds the radar to what’s behind the first blast for a few min an eternity in a nuclear war.
^^^^^this is how Golden Dome should be set up we have 90% of the tech already, the ultrafast endoatmo would need a new rocket and we stopped making 10KT enhanced radiation warheads so Pantex would need to fire back up that process.