I think if you shot it down over N. Korea, they’d be more likely to go to war, than if you shot it down hundreds of miles away.
So in the former case, you’d have the war anyway. In the latter case, since it’s less of a loss of face for N. Korea, they might not go to war. But they still might.
Is there some way to “push” it back? Just dreaming out loud.
Maybe nuking a Pyongyang that has launched something displaying a nuclear signature to satellites might be the humanest move.
Is there some way to “push” it back? Just dreaming out loud.
Maybe nuking a Pyongyang that has launched something displaying a nuclear signature to satellites might be the humanest move.
The location of an NK missile shoot down would be based on our current capabilities. I agree that doing so well away from the mainland is preferable. But I’m at least hopeful that we could do a close in shoot down from a ship. But I can’t name the system that would do it.
How far out to sea can that be extended? I really don’t know. Maybe somebody will pipe in who knows our deployed capability and the intercept range of our shipborn systems.
It looks like AEGIS is the shipborne anti-ICBM system. Very mature system.