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2017-09-19 Science & Technology

No, We Cannot Shoot Down North Korea's Missiles

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2017-09-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 ...And of course, the fact that none of the countermeasures this guy lists have been seen shouldn't stop us from panicking and surrendering.

Realistically, the Nork ICBMs are - technology wise - the equal of our first generation Minuteman missiles from the early 60s. They go up, they come down, and with a little luck they go boom. In terms of capability, right now it's a V2 with more range and accuracy.

That isn't to say that they might not develop them in the future, but they sure as hell don't have them now.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-09-19 05:28|| 2017-09-19 05:28|| Front Page Top

#2 ...... he reports. Moreover, it is impossible, he says, to "quantitatively assess GMD performance due to lack of ground tests" and "the reliability and availability of the operational GBI’s [Ground-Based Interceptors] is low, and the MDA continues to discover new failure modes during testing."

Flag tossed. WTF good are they if they cannot be employed? I suspect we've been waved off. Nice array of satellite communications platforms you have there. Be a shame if anything happened to any of them.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-19 08:31|| 2017-09-19 08:31|| Front Page Top

#3 It seems that launch accidents happen often so imagining a rocket to be super-robust and able to withstand even minimal damage seems to be giving the North Koreans more credit than they deserve.

Also testing nukes in a bunker under super-controlled conditions seems to be fairly hit-and-miss for the North Koreans. Expecting a warhead to go off as planned after the jarring it would take along the journey seems to be giving the North Koreans a bit too much credit as well.

Not to say that there isn't something to fear here, but realistically the chances of one of their missiles avoiding all attempts to damage it and having it hit a distant target in shape to have the warhead explode as intended seems a bit unlikely to me. At this point.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-09-19 11:49|| 2017-09-19 11:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Ship the pieces & parts across our porous borders & reassemble them - wherever. Then issue an ultimatum for whatever.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-09-19 11:57|| 2017-09-19 11:57|| Front Page Top

#5 And the Patriot was originally designed to intercept aircraft, not ballistic missiles.

Posted by P2Kontheroad 2017-09-19 17:49|| 2017-09-19 17:49|| Front Page Top

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