[El Gato]

The range of those 16 inch rifles was about 20 miles or so, not 100. And as accurate as they were they'd never be able to hit an incoming missile moving at Mach 7 unless it was the luckiest shot in history.

Range and max alittued are not the same thing. However I suspect you are correct in that her shells could not reach 100 miles altitude.

As to being able to hit something anywhere near that far away, it would depend on the nature of the "shell". If it was mostly second stage and guidance, (don't need anywhere near that much warhead to kill an ICBM RV) it might be able to achieve both the range/altitude and be able to hit the target.

[null and void]

As to being able to hit something anywhere near that far away, it would depend on the nature of the "shell". If it was mostly second stage and guidance, (don't need anywhere near that much warhead to kill an ICBM RV) it might be able to achieve both the range/altitude and be able to hit the target.

There's probably enough of a knowledge base left over from the Copperhead program that would map over nicely.

[RachelFaith]

Ping to 29. And google will give you hundreds of articles to review on the subject.