US successfully tests THAAD missile system amid North Korean tensions

Fox News ^ | 07/11/2017

[Mariner]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/05/30/with-eyes-on-north-korea-u-s-successfully-destroys-mock-icbm-over-pacific/?utm_term=.0bbb559b9cd3

[Robert A Cook PE]

I remember 1982. I remember them scoffing at it saying “shooting a bullet with a bullet”.

And I said even back then, “bullet with a bullet”... sounds like an engineering problem to me. Isn’t that what we do best in the US, solve engineering problems?

Heck, we've been hitting bullets with bullets for a while now. I've SEEN three cases of Civil War bullets hitting a bullet - AND being recovered intact afterwards! (Two at Petersburg, the third at a different battlefield.)

[Lou L]

where is point a US based radar will acquire that launch?

I would think the radar wouldn't have to be US-based, but could be forward-deployed on Aegis ships, or even in space.

[The Great RJ]

Certainly these are imperfect systems, but they are infinitely better than seeing a mission being launched from North Korea and helplessly waiting for its impact

[bus man]

I was in Seoul two weeks ago. As I was riding a bus through the main central square, I came upon a group of protesters waving South Korean flags and apparently miffed about having THAAD deployed on their soil. I wanted to throttle them, to shout at them, to make them open their eyes and realize that their flags aren’t going to protect them from the madman to the north, but our missiles just might.

But then, in the midst of the protesters, I saw a middle-aged Korean woman, calmly holding a sign, saying (in English) “God bless the U.S.A. We love you.” It nearly brought tears to my eyes.