[BIGLOOK]

The USS Lake Erie has been credited with kills on the test range and we have Barking Sands Missile Test Range which "is the only range in the world where submarines, surface ships, aircraft and space vehicles can operate and be tracked simultaneously". So it's highly doubtful that anything will get through.

Last time the DPRK launched a couple years back, their missile didn't achieve orbit and splashed in the Pacific east of Japan. That was a two stage missile with liquid fuel systems and faulty spark plugs. It would take three stages and orbit to reach Hawaii and the mainland but not so sure about an Alaskan target. Either way, a Navy CG in the North Pacific would prevent an attack by a single missile (maybe more) on both sites.

Last scuttlebutt was that THAAD was to be deployed here and I thought ok.....but why let it get so close to shore when it's trajectory can be ascertained from far away.

Maybe the Army Missilemen need a little vacation and I'm all for that.

[STARWISE]

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

FWIW, COBRA DANE, (1 MW average power, 95’ diameter apeture) in the western Aleutians, does a pretty fair job of surveillance on approachs from Korea to mainland Alaska, where there is an interceptor farm in Fort Greeley, near Fairbanks. (Some “vacations”).

There’s nothing comparable in Hawaii.

[El Gato]

The USS Lake Erie has been credited with kills on the test range

Sure, but nothing screaming in at mach 23 to Mach 25. Those missiles are designed for shorter range missiles. The longer the range, the higher the reentry velocity.

We once had missiles capable of stopping incoming from even farther away than Hawaii is from NK. In fact we had two. Spartan and Sprint, collectively known as Sentinel with a latter downgraded(in 1967!) version, actually deployed known as Safeguard. Site was in North Dakota, where it protected our own Minuteman ICBMs from a first strike. The American Safeguard system was only briefly operational (for a matter of several months). The Soviet system (now called A-135 "Galosh") has been improved over the decades, and it is still operational around Moscow