Posted on 05/30/2017 1:54:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
That’s great, however the concept of using kinetic warheads (shooting a bullet with a bullet) is rather stupid. The US ABM systems of the 60s & 70s were pretty damn effective. I can understand moving away from nuclear tipped ABMs, but the general tech of using an explosive to take out the incoming warhead eliminates the need to have a direct impact with the object, thus a higher likelihood of success.
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The price of North Korean poker just went up quite a bit today!
My spider sense tells me that we have far more capability than what was shown today. We just don’t want to show it yet.
IMHO, NK is trying to lure the USA into revealing its true missile defense tech. for its Chinese and perhaps Russian Masters.
Today’s successful test is great as it keeps them off balance and second guessing.
Is it time for them to fold?
With all that work, I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes...
Sounds like a reasoned use for a small neutron device.
Would that cause an EMP?
Perhaps it might, and of course that would eliminate it as a useful weapon.
I also wonder if these devices could be shelded, so an almost direct hit would till be necessary.
Again, those would cause an EMP wouldn’t they?
Just for the record, cream of tartar, and tartar sauce, are two completely different things.
And like the lame streams with an altered voiced engineer in a black silhouette saying the B2 Bomber will never fly, or the C-17 was a waste ( Sam Donaldson ). I was sick of them all, I'd love to see their grades in math and science of those reporting on these technologies back in the day because they were wrong, way wrong...
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“The US ABM systems of the 60s & 70s were pretty damn effective.”
They were most likely effective against strategic bombers and less likely effective against single-warhead ballistic missiles. (The terminal velocity of ICBMs of that era was in excess of Mach 13.) Against MIRV ballistic missiles, implemented by the Soviet Union after 1975, the ABMs of the era were likely ineffective, which is why we decommissioned them.
Any (thermo)nuclear detonation at a couple hundred miles or so altitude is going to create some amount of EMP, and some amount of trapped radiation. The “Starfish Prime” weapon yielded 1.4 MT. Nike Zeus, OTOH, carried a 400kT weapon. Nike-X/Spartan carried a 5MT weapon, Sprint would have carried a weapon with a few kT yield. All of these would be quite messy, and would seriously degrade our satellite based ISR, navigation, and communications capabilities. Hit to kill is possible with today’s technology, and can be as effective without making nearly as much mess.
Interesting that they did a searh and engineering trade study before concluding that a “hit to kill” technology would be the best solution even though it was probably the hardest technology to perfect.
One of the reasons for this involves a first hit messing up the probability of successive hits. The other as you pointed out is that detonating nukes in the atmosphere is a bad idea if there is any way to avoid it.
Whether successful or not. This test is not a good replication of shooting down middles where you have no prior information
This is nothing like SDI.
I wonder if we painted Kim Ugly’s mug on the warhead.
Even if we didn’t, it’d be funny if a “leak” of a fake video showing exactly that was released. It’d make the fat f’er have a fit.
Take that, Libturds!!!
How many times did they tell us this can’t be done, it’s a Reagan “Star Wars” crazy fantasy etc. etc. etc.
Thank you for your response. That pretty much answers my thoughts on the situation.
I have some things I need to do now, so I’m off.
Take care.
“I wonder if you can make a mock warhead with Ritz Crackers too.”
Kind of like “Sham” poo. To Hell with that, I want REAL poo. Damn, no one makes anything real any more!
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