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dusty
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Well that's all quite enlightening SBD.
So much for all the Commiecrat posturing about how N.K. has only had Nukes since G.W. took office.
And Kerry telling people this adminstration has not been honest with the American people.
Looks to me like he's the one doing the lying. As if we all didn't already know that one.
Dusty
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NortonPete
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:51 am Post subject: Re: As Iran and North Korea Rattle their Sabers, |
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| GenrXr wrote: | As Iran and North Korea Rattle their Sabers, do we have anyone in the Pentagon who actually reads?
We are using the Aegis class warships as sensors says Gertz, yet the Heritage Foundation which was formed in the 90’s by a group of missile defense experts argues we should be placing our Aegis Cruisers on the west coast armed with SM-3 missiles.
Heritage notes in ‘War Footing’ that the SM-3 was successful in 5 out of 6 tests in 2005, yet at time of the books publication we only had a reserve of 3 SM-3’s.1 We have a proven missile intercept technology, yet the Pentagon continues to retire our cruisers while not adding SM-3’s to our arsenal.
We need to produce SM-3’s and place our retiring Aegis Cruisers on the west coast as missile defense platforms.
I have no problem with land based systems, yet until they are proven we must have our offshore Aegis system in place as an interceptor, not a sensor.
Anything else is pure incompetence.
Frank J. Gaffney and Colleagues, ‘War Footing’ Naval Institute Press 2006 pp. 282-284 |
Going back to the original post for a bit...
I recall in the late 1990's that the Aegis system could handle the missile
Intercept task. I remember ( no link ) that a networked system of Aegis
class ships could effectively track a missile and shoot it down.
But I believe the MilitaryIndustrial..Blah blah shifted its focus to this
bullet hitting a bullet program. Its not unlike NASA, completely abandon
any previous technology and pursue a new course.
Its dumb but it is the way we do things. We just invent things a bit faster
because of this handicap.
I recall now that F15 had some missile in the 1980's that they could launch at high altitude to intercept a intercontinental missile. it was the size of a
coffee can.
I think GenrXr is right. |
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