[jb6]

The Poland base it positioned to intercept a Iranian missile headed for Europe.

Why on earth would you build it in Poland then? In such a case you'd build the system in Georgia or Bulgaria or Romania or Cyprus or Greece, not in Poland. A missile heading towards the US wouldn't fly over Europe anyways (not from Iran), with the exception of possibly flying over Russian airspace and the Russians can take it out. At most it'll skirt southern Europe. A missile heading towards Italy or Germany still wouldn't fly close to Poland.

[Lukasz]

Why on earth would you build it in Poland then? In such a case you'd build the system in Georgia or Bulgaria or Romania or Cyprus or Greece, not in Poland. A missile heading towards the US wouldn't fly over Europe anyways (not from Iran), with the exception of possibly flying over Russian airspace and the Russians can take it out. At most it'll skirt southern Europe. A missile heading towards Italy or Germany still wouldn't fly close to Poland.

Ahh you oppose this project, another astonishing surprise :-)

[FreedomCalls]

A missile heading towards the US wouldn't fly over Europe anyways (not from Iran),

Yes it would. A missile launched from Tehran to Washington would fly directly over Poland. See the great circle route in the map in my #143.

[magellan]

A missile heading towards the US wouldn't fly over Europe anyways (not from Iran), with the exception of possibly flying over Russian airspace and the Russians can take it out. At most it'll skirt southern Europe. A missile heading towards Italy or Germany still wouldn't fly close to Poland.

Uh, no.

Direct route from Tehran to New York City, pasing over Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Kalingrad Russia, Sweden, Norway, Scotland, and Canada.