Today I learned that a lot of major countries have an anti-nuclear missile program except the US
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SimplyTracie · 26-30, F
Maybe we gave all of ours away to other countries. 😔
Nah, I read that if North Korea fired a missile towards the USA, it would be shot down long before it got to Hawaii.
Nah, I read that if North Korea fired a missile towards the USA, it would be shot down long before it got to Hawaii.
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JohnYahYah · 61-69, M
@FelixLegion I said we have enough. Not buying another eleven carriers does not equal a defense spending cut.
If you are my child, and your allowance is $12 a week, and you tell me you must have $21 a week, and I give you $12 per usual, I have not cut your allowance.
If you are my child, and your allowance is $12 a week, and you tell me you must have $21 a week, and I give you $12 per usual, I have not cut your allowance.
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JohnYahYah · 61-69, M
The decrease in 2013 of about 70 billion, if that is what you are referring to, is a large amount of money, but only 10% of the total defense budget, which had undergone very large increases in almost every year prior of the 2000s.
I don't know when fiscal conservatism became a form of leftism?
I don't know when fiscal conservatism became a form of leftism?
1GHOST · M
National missile defense (NMD) is a generic term for a type of missile defense intended to shield an entire country against incoming missiles, such as intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBMs) or other ballistic missiles.
A Payload Launch Vehicle (PLV) carrying a prototype exoatmospheric kill vehicle is launched from Meck Island at the Kwajalein Missile Range on 3 December 2001, for an intercept of a ballistic missile target over the central Pacific Ocean.
This is also used to refer to the American nationwide antimissile program the United States has had in development since the 1990s. After the renaming in 2002, the term now refers to the entire program, not just the ground-based interceptors and associated facilities.
Nike-Zeus
Project Defender
Sentinel Program
Safeguard Program
Homing Overlay Experiment
Strategic Defense Initiative
Ground-based interceptor missiles
Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System
Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense
Airborne systems
ummmmm 🤔
A Payload Launch Vehicle (PLV) carrying a prototype exoatmospheric kill vehicle is launched from Meck Island at the Kwajalein Missile Range on 3 December 2001, for an intercept of a ballistic missile target over the central Pacific Ocean.
This is also used to refer to the American nationwide antimissile program the United States has had in development since the 1990s. After the renaming in 2002, the term now refers to the entire program, not just the ground-based interceptors and associated facilities.
Nike-Zeus
Project Defender
Sentinel Program
Safeguard Program
Homing Overlay Experiment
Strategic Defense Initiative
Ground-based interceptor missiles
Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System
Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense
Airborne systems
ummmmm 🤔
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FloorGenAdm · 51-55, M
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JohnYahYah · 61-69, M
@FelixLegion SCUDs are not intercontinental missles.
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1GHOST · M
Nike-Zeus
Main article: LIM-49 Nike Zeus
In the 1950s, a series of anti-aircraft missiles were developed as part of Project Nike. The latest in the series, Nike-Zeus, offered extremely long-range interception and very high performance. In the late 1950s, the program investigated the use of Nike-Zeus missiles as interceptors against Soviet ICBMs. A Nike warhead would be detonated at high altitudes (over 100 km, or 60 statute miles) above the polar regions in the near vicinity of an incoming Soviet missile.
Main article: LIM-49 Nike Zeus
In the 1950s, a series of anti-aircraft missiles were developed as part of Project Nike. The latest in the series, Nike-Zeus, offered extremely long-range interception and very high performance. In the late 1950s, the program investigated the use of Nike-Zeus missiles as interceptors against Soviet ICBMs. A Nike warhead would be detonated at high altitudes (over 100 km, or 60 statute miles) above the polar regions in the near vicinity of an incoming Soviet missile.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Like the U.S. military would willingly actually reveal any weapon system let alone every weapon system ever made. There are systems that few know exist. Hopefully the U.S. will never have to use any of them.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@JohnYahYah ANY quotes without first hand knowledge is pointless.
JohnYahYah · 61-69, M
@DeWayfarer I don't understand what you mean here. If you mean no one can cite sources, I'll have to disagree.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@JohnYahYah Book knowledge is NOT the same as practical knowledge. Discussing "practices" and "capabilities" is pointless without that knowledge.
sighmeupforthat · 46-50, M
FreeSpirit1 · 51-55, F
@FreeSpirit1 wikipedia.
FreeSpirit1 · 51-55, F
@marcusaurelius about one particular program? They have been working on anti missile defense systems since the 80s. Having thousands of nuclear warheads is kind of a deterrent anyway I suppose.
Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M
firefall · 61-69, M
you learned a complete falsehood, then