Missile defense plan seen ready by fall (Reuters)

(Let me stress, the "...PLAN seen ready by fall...," sure doesn't sound "operational" to me if they are just finishing the "plan.")

Missile defense plan seen ready by fall

Tue Jul 25, 2006 07:32 PM ET

By Andrea Shalal-Esa

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military hopes to complete work this fall on a plan mapping out how regional commanders will be able to use the fledgling U.S. missile defense system, a top general said on Tuesday. Lt. Gen. Larry Dodgen, commander of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defend Command, told industry executives and congressional aides he expected the so-called "concept of operations" to be done by October or November.

He said it marked the first time the military had tried to draft such a plan for a specific capability across the military's regional commands. Dodgen hailed a recent successful test of a missile-shield component built by Lockheed Martin Corp. to shoot down a ballistic missile in the last minute or so of its flight.

The so-called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense weapon system, or THAAD, "exceeded its objectives" in the long-planned test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, Lockheed said in a statement earlier this month. Dodgen agreed, saying the THAAD missiles would "pay for themselves many times over."

He also mentioned plans to deploy missile interceptors in Japan, and said officials were still weighing where to place interceptors in Europe. The United States last month activated its ground-based interceptor missile-defense system ahead of a test-launch of North Korean missiles on July 5.

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There's no such thing. There never was any such thing. There never will be any such thing. It's all smoke and mirrors. None of it is real.

Any freshman economics student can explain how to get around it. Any freshman physics student can show you why the theory behind it is fatally flawed. Any first year Comp Sci major can explain, even if it could work in theory, why it can't work in actuality. Etc.

But people are so fucking ignorant that they'll believe anything these totally insane and corrupt warmongers tell them.

Bah!!! This is all so maddening.

Seems to me that that would be the more cost-effective than some kinetic-energy weapon that is trying to do a Mach-20 intercept on a target only a couple of feet in diameter.

Not only that, but the airborne laser would be highly mobile, able to move from place to place rapidly. And the laser has actually worked when fired from the ground, unlike THAAD. These two features may actually be useful for when Bush finally scares N. Korea into launching nukes at somebody.

This is the main issue with so-called missile defense. It is so easy to circumvent that even the smallest nuclear weapons country can do it. All you have to do is send up enough targets to overwhelm the defense. This is not only possible, it's obvious and trivial to do it. You don't even need to put a nuke on every missile. In fact, it's a lot cheaper if you don't. Just overwhelm the system with targets only a few of which have actual weapons. With the abyssmal performance of the current state of the art, that isn't even difficult. I'd bet that three simultaneous targets would do it. If the launching country really wanted to fuck with the US, they'd announce the launch to us and dare us to shoot them down. It wouldn't make any difference if the US tried to get them. The defense system wouldn't work well enough to stop the attack and some weapons would get through.

The result is a defense system that's useless. But, of course, with ChimpCo in charge, we already knew that.

is an X-Ray laser which is triggered by an atomic bomb. Obviously, this would entail putting atomic weapons in space which would violate about a bazillion treaties and would instigate a war of satellites.

Traditional lasers are either not powerful enough or take too much power than would be available on a space-based platform.

The best approach is something like a rail gun, or a satellite that spews out lots of small projectiles. Both of these have limited number of uses and again, the launching country has only to launch a few more missiles to overwhelm the system.

Also, one more fatal flaw. Missile defense systems presume that an enemy will deliver a weapon with a missile. Current world threats indicate that the most likely delivery system is on a container ship which will deliver the weapon through one of the nearly totally unprotected ports of entry operated by the Arabs.

at lining the pockets of the Bush Crime Family and their friends.

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