No US missile defense system proven capable against ‘realistic’ ICBM threats: Study
What TARGET have they hit?
No response other than apologizing to Kim by Joe for Donald Trump’s actions.
Even if that’s true, if our missile defense systems detect the launch and determine it could be headed toward Hawaii or the West Coast, you send everything and the kitchen sink at the missile hoping you get lucky, you don’t sit back and say we’re screwed because our systems don’t work and launch and immediate nuclear attack
I bet they can’t reach DC. Let’s keep it a close secret how much the American people love DC and how devastated we would be if they nuked it.
No.
Not enough time for the decision process.
(...and I’m NOT talking hyper-sonics; I am talking slow-witted, overly-careful, hesitant, too-many-consultants kind of slow. Institutional ‘Promethius-Bound,” slow.)
It would all be over before Biden even knew about it.
What about “ international waters”?
The Pentagon is raging that Russia downed a robot drone over “ international waters’ and pledges to intensify flight activity
Should NK do the same?
We would look stupid if we missed.
Nah, no shoot down.
Just have general milley vanilly give them a call.
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And I highly doubt we would reveal our hand if we did have such a system and the Norks were just testing. If a real ICMB actually tracked to a US based target, I would hope all of North Korea would be vaporized, regardless of if the ICBM was intercepted or not.
Look how long it took to make a decision on a slow-moving balloon. With this administration, nothing is getting shot down before they gauge the sentiment on social media and their focus groups.
“What are the events that are likely to occur if North Korea does in fact launch an ICBM with a nuclear payload?”
1. North Korea gets turned into a lake of glass.
2. That is all.
Good article, but the stupid headline excites the emotions of the band of noisy monkeys.
Sniffer will shoot his toe off.
Will Joe Biden Shoot It Down?
NO Biden thinks ICBM means In Coming Big Money.
Shoot it down? With what? The Dems and faux-Republicans over the last several decades have prevented us from having any kind of ABM system that could actually protect us...and have also made any kind of national shelter system impossible with their arrogance and condescending ridicule of the concept. They’ve left us completely unprepared to face a purposeful EMP attack or a solar storm like the Carrington Event that would destroy our civilization and kill hundreds of millions.
Imagine if the Norks put a nuclear warhead on the missile and detonated in in some very remote part of the south Pacific. Even if we had the shoot down capacity, old Joe wouldn’t be awake from his nap to make the decision.
I say he would have it shot at after it overshot the whole country.