.... So .... Other than our missile defense system ..... I guess there is no way for a squadron of Suicide Jockeys to actually scramble and take the rickety missile out for the good of the country? .... Just wondering. After all .... it is only a half hour to scramble a mission.
If our planes in So. Korea or offshore are on “Ready Alert”, they can be airborne in minutes. They can carry anti-missile missiles that can go hundreds of miles long and even up into the outer limits of the atmosphere.
Lookup “Bold Orion” and see if that’s the program in the 50’s that used airborne missiles to intercept a satellite in space.
We have all kinds of goodies in our defense bag, some systems going back over 40-50 years.
Our rockets can use a conventional explosive head, a nuclear warhead, or a “pellet/steel ball or arrows” warhead (thousands of them), to take out a missile in flight.
They can also take out squadrons of enemy aircraft or small attack boats.
All one has to do is to go back to older magazines on anti-missile defense (Popular Mechanics, for one), to see what actually existed in our arsenal years ago, and what was underway re development, and ideas for future weapons (laser guns, laser-armed missiles, sonic guns, etc).
Sometimes MIT or Harvard actually produce a patriotic American who is interested in defending out country, not selling it out.