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2007-10-03 Home Front: WoT

Missile defense system is up and running, military says

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Posted by Delphi 2007-10-03 08:19|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Boy, did they skip over some big historical events there. Safeguard was built in secret by Richard Nixon, and when he announced that it was complete and fully functional, the Russians about pooped themselves. They had no idea.

Since they couldn't afford to build a real ABM system, they overnight created a *fake* one, which was enough for the US to agree on the SALT-1 treaty that only preserved the tiny amount of anti-missile defenses for Moscow that the Russians could afford.

But the Democrat congress decided we didn't need any at all, so threw away our $500B system.

Imbeciles. Just what they are planning to do with our current, new, missile defenses.

I guess they won't be satisfied until all the blue States are wiped out with nuclear weapons.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-03 10:11|| 2007-10-03 10:11|| Front Page Top

#2 It only slightly works against single launch threats. It must be defunded and removed!!! Give all the money to widows and orphans!
/dhimocrats

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-10-03 10:34|| 2007-10-03 10:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Didn't the Ford administration bargain the Safeguard system away? Or did the post Watergate Congress composed of radical dimocrats unilaterally give up the system?

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Shins1195 2007-10-03 11:21|| 2007-10-03 11:21|| Front Page Top

#4 We will again hear the "It won't protect against a "suitcase nuke" or a nuke in a shipping container. I call this the "Your cancer cure is useless since it does nothing about the flu!" argument...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-10-03 12:23|| 2007-10-03 12:23|| Front Page Top

#5 One of my friends was the information officer for Safeguard. He said that the RADAR had to be continuously working in order to retain its integrity (late 1960's technology). After they turned it off, it wouldn't work if it was turned back on. The 64 missiles were basically souped-up, nuclear-tipped Nikes. It came online in September, 1975, and was forced to shut down the same month by a Democratic congress. President Ford tried to talk them out of it, but failed.

The Dhimmicrats have been traitors ever since 1932 and the Roosevelt Administration. Why should it be a surprise now?

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-10-03 13:42|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-10-03 13:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Again with the harping about decoys. These critics seem to think that the engineers who design these systems are stupid.

Posted by moody blues 2007-10-03 14:38|| 2007-10-03 14:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh how I dearly wish they had announced that we'd lied and there were actually 11,000 interceptors deployed, rather than just 11.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats 2007-10-03 17:22|| 2007-10-03 17:22|| Front Page Top

#8 It only slightly works against single launch threats. It must be defunded and removed!!! Give all the money to widows and orphans that we will create!
/dhimocrats

There, fixed it for ya

Posted by OldSpook 2007-10-03 17:52|| 2007-10-03 17:52|| Front Page Top

#9 No, the Russ long before were quietly planning to [eventually] deploy ABM/BMD Systems beyond only Air Defense. "Pooped themselves" > more correct to say Amer defeated them ala CUBAN CRISIS, beat them in Space and Moon race, were winning in Vietnam, + now beat them wid ABM. BREZHNEV > began the post-Cuba Soviet military buildup and modernization, dedicating the USSR to a minima of PARITY iff NOT SUPERIORITY vv USA-NATO. Unknown to the West, pre-Brezhnev the Soviets did not trust the bulk of their own strategic missle and targeting systems despite their Commie rhetoric to the contrary.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-03 19:22|| 2007-10-03 19:22|| Front Page Top

#10 2007 and GLOBAL MISSLE DEFENSE > Russia's SHKVAL hyper-velocity torpedo > The Russians have already admitted that they intend to continue and expand the SHKVAL concept to LR strategic capabilities, plus are dev their own UNDERWATER SUBMERSIBLE VEHICLES [armed/attack]. Besides, so-called SATURATION ATTACKS to defeat US GMD, point or en masse, THE UNDERWATER OCEAN = UW LINEAR DISTANCE BTWN ORIGIN + TARGET POINTS IS ITSELF NOW A DIMENSION OF STEALTH = COVER FOR ANTI-US STRATEGIC ATTACK. E.G. "SPIDER" naval design, etal. > Amers should be expecting more strange-looking, non-traditional ship designs for future naval surface and UW ship units. GLOBAL SEA DEFENSE > SHKVAL + 3D-plus BATTLESPACE SPAWAR > in future, DECISIVE NAVAL BATTLES + BMD MAY BE DECIDED UNDERWATER, NOT JUST VIA SURFACE OR SPACE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-03 19:36|| 2007-10-03 19:36|| Front Page Top

#11 REDDIT?TOPIX > BLACKWATER MOVES TOWARDS DIRIGIBLES. Unmanned, Nano-Techy, Multi-purpose, and eventually ARMED. Walking-on-ground armed Terrorists are just so much weird-looking Commie missles???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-03 23:10|| 2007-10-03 23:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Joe's on a roll

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