Posted on 06/02/2009 11:43:45 AM PDT by lewisglad
U.S. concerned salvo strategy could overwhelm missile defenses
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials said Iran and North Korea are focusing on the use of sustained fire to overcome Israeli and US missile defense systems.
The officials said the development of ballistic missile defense systems must protect against missile salvos.
"An additional concern is North Korea's and Iran's repeated demonstrations of salvo launches, indicating large ballistic missile attack raid sizes must be considered in developing the BMDS [ballistic missile defense system]," U.S. Missile Defense Agency director Patrick O'Reilly said.
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Then why did Obama cut Missile Defense funding!?
Obama is a joke in the intel community.
We already have defense against missile salvos. The Nuclear Triad has worked perfectly since the 1950’s. The foundation of our tiered missile defense systems is: you try to nuke us, and we’ll nuke you back even harder.
This administration is staffed by complete idiots.
what missile defense?
Obama won’t even turn on the radar to track the missiles
Yet the dipsh*t pretending to be CIC is slashing missile defenses and other high tech weaponry.
I’m by no means an expert, but vector coordinates from incoming to outgoing missiles should be roughly 180 degrees different.
B.U.M.P.!
The downside is that radar and other systems might be blinded by some of these types of blasts.
There is also work on an airborne laser. But it would take a fleet of a number of aircraft with the lasers to be effective in defending against a missile attack.
Finally, in our own missile tests, they were near flawless with the exception of a "miss" by the USS Grace Hooper...
Iran and NKorea do not need to fire nuclear tipped missiles...
I still think that the biggest danger will come from an EMP. In these modern times a couple of strategically detonated EMP weapons (high altitude nukes) will destroy every unshielded electronic device within range. It would take decades to restore that much fried equipment and we would be joining our peace loving muzzie friends in the glorious 7TH century.
Yeah, let them know our weak points. Good job
What an idiotic statement. They may not need to actually fire them, but ultimately they need the ability to fire nuclear-tipped missiles. That is why they are testing them. You think they just need to send some conventional explosive to Los Angeles? What good would that do? A nuclear missile can do a lot more damage, even in a near-miss scenario. They know that there is a good chance that they will all die when they attack, and they need as effective an attack as possible to make it worth it. And it's the Grace HOPPER.
A boomer parked in the Indian Ocean and one parked in the Sea of Japan could easily rein destruction down on both of these festering sewers within 5-10 minutes and put a stop to any further launches.
Although I doubt our Beloved Leader has the balls to do much of anything except contact the UN and demand they protest those mean people that are vaporizing our cities and installations.
Against a sane, or even semi-rational opponent, an assured second strike goes a long way towards preventing an attack.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m big on BDM. In fact I think one of the biggest long term negative impacts of the Obama administration is the loss of full blown development.
Our new strategic plan seems to be to assume the fetal position as rapidly as possible.
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