To: dragnet2
Didn’t the USS Lake Erie shoot down a bus sized satellite a few years ago? I heard that the Russians scrambled interceptors but couldn’t do anything. The US Navy could possibly have detected and brought down this thing.
To: CPO retired
I don’t think any military on the planet has a system capable of shooting down an incoming object with a speed of 33,000 MPH.
12 posted on
02/15/2013 11:47:58 AM PST by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: CPO retired
The US Navy could possibly have detected and brought down this thing. Why bother?
It seems to have brought itself down just fine.
67 posted on
02/15/2013 5:22:17 PM PST by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Hey RATS! Control your murdering freaks.)
To: CPO retired
Didn’t the USS Lake Erie shoot down a bus sized satellite a few years ago? I heard that the Russians scrambled interceptors but couldn’t do anything. The US Navy could possibly have detected and brought down this thing.
IIRC, we do or did have an ASAT missile that was mounted on an F-15. I wonder the same thing if it would have been possible to intercept the meteor using an AEGIS missile system or the Patriot or if we did into the past, a Nike-Zeus or Ajax or even a BOMARC.
113 posted on
02/16/2013 9:25:12 PM PST by
Nowhere Man
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