Star Wars Now - Missile defense is on its way to becoming a reality.

The Weekly Standard ^ | 05/07/2006 | James Thayer

[beethovenfan]

How about Koranchi?

[Monitor]

"It'll never work. Star Wars is just a fantasy of Ronny Raygun. You can't hit a bullet with a bullet." </Idiot Leftist>

[anymouse]

[wjcsux]

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[ladyinred]

This makes me sooooo happy!

[359Henrie]

Both!

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

As an engineer, I worked on the Missile Defense program.

Truly a great feat of engineering. However, we shouldn't get too complacent. There are ways to counter the missile defense system, although this requires some sophistication on the part of the aggressor. Work still needs to be done.

Obviously, I'm not going to talk about that here.

[Billthedrill]

Thanks for the ping. All you really need to know to realize that this is nearly there are two words: "post-apogee intercept." You may absolutely depend on Japan being vitally interested. They've already been overflown once. That we know about.

Back when I was a Navy missileer three decades ago a "skin-to-skin" at maximum range was the ne plus ultra of the field. It is simply hard to explain how difficult this is or how good you have to be to bring it off. My congrats to all involved. We may be needing this, and if we do, we'll need it badly.

[Blueflag]

The are called ballistic missiles for a reason. Their tracks can be plotted very quickly from radar data.

One would not mistake the flight path and speed of an ICBM for a manned space launch.

SM-3s fly REALLY fast also. They would know it's not an ICBM.

[Blueflag]

Read this also

http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/sm3.htm

[tang-soo]

in 1985 an aide to House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin, the Wisconsin Democrat,

Sorry to speak of the dead, but, what these idiots don't understand is that Star Wars and the B-2 accomplished their missions before they were deployed. These systems scared the borscht out of the Soviets and we won the cold war through military econonmics. It exposed the Soviets as (to steal a quote) a very strong arm with a very weak body.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Remember the scoffing when Ronald Reagan first proposed a ballistic missile defense? A typical example: in 1985 an aide to House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin, the Wisconsin Democrat, announced, "Star Wars research is an imprudent use of taxpayers' dollars. By continuing it, we're essentially throwing money into a bottomless pit." The skepticism continues. In 2004, Eugene Habiger, who headed the U.S. Strategic Command in the mid-1990s, said, "A system is being deployed that doesn't have any credible capability." And the Union of Concerned Scientists--who else?--recently issued a tract claiming that there is "no basis for believing the system will have any capability to defend against real attack."

[MattinNJ]

Thank you Mr. President. Thank you.

[Coop]

Ah yes, I feel so much safer now we have a missile shield

Then I suggest you scurry on back to your British Isles where you'll undoubtedly feel much safer!

[Coop]

BTW, isn't interesting how the "everyone hates us" claque always manages to ignore one billion Indians? The USSR had a lock on that country not long ago and our really really dumb President has managed to turn them into a virtual ally.

Not too shabby for a dumb cowboy, huh?

[Trueblackman]

Did someone say star wars?