[kinoxi]

a want a phaser

[dighton]

It’ll never work! It’ll never work! It’ll never work!

(Indescribably cool stuff.)

[Gordongekko909]

Now witness the power of this FULLY ARMED AND OPERATIONAL BATTLE STATION!

[in hoc signo vinces]

Good news!

[Commander8]

This is exciting stuff!!!

[freeangel]

Hehe. This is going to tick off China, N. Korea and Iran.

[Draco]

Ron was right. Again.

[uptoolate]

"And the father of missile defense is not being forgotten: last month a new installation at Vandenberg Air Force Base was named The Ronald W. Reagan Missile Defense Site."

The legacy of the greatest President in my time continues. Thank you Mr. President.

[leda]

ping :)

[snowsislander]

Tomorrow it won't be so limited, and our allies know it--they're jumping on board. The most recent test of the system occurred in March, another SM-3 launched from the Lake Erie. This time the SM-3's nosecone was a product of the Japan Defense Agency. A standard SM-3 must maneuver in flight to eject the kill vehicle. The Japanese invented a clamshell nosecone, which opened like a shell to more quickly release the kill vehicle without the SM-3 maneuvering. It was another success, and the target missile was vaporized. Japan contributes $1 billion a year to American missile defense efforts, and is currently installing the Aegis system on four Kongo-class destroyers. The United States and Japan are scheduled to sign an agreement later this month to develop and manufacture an enhanced version of the SM-3 missile.

Actually, I believe this is worded in a slightly misleading manner: the Kongou class destroyers already have Aegis systems.

[Moonman62]

She adds that our allies are ridding themselves of the Cold War notion that vulnerability is stabilizing.

What a stupid idea that was -- probably planted by Soviet agents.

[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>

[wjcsux]

[wjcsux]

[ladyinred]

This makes me sooooo happy!

[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.

[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."

[Trueblackman]

Did someone say star wars?