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To: knighthawk

They have been talking about missiles like this for decades now, but we don’t seem to be any closer to a deployable weapon than we were in the 90s.


2 posted on 01/15/2020 11:41:16 PM PST by The Pack Knight
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To: The Pack Knight

I think in the past, the issue has been that its impossible to tell a nuclear ballistic missile from a conventional ballistic missile, so there is/was concern we could wind up starting a nuclear war when that wasnt the intent.

I think since that time, some arms treaties have expired or been let go, and also the threat environment is different. How the CONOP for such a system works without accidentally igniting a nuclear exchange with a competitor that may not even be the target of the conventional attack is something that would have to be hashed out.


29 posted on 01/16/2020 12:26:46 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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