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Re:Did American Missile Defense Fail in Saudi Arabia? by jhayward on Monday December 04, 2017 @04:42PM (#15847806)
Aegis and SM-3 seem to be working for some forms of missile defense, including some BMDs.

It's a hard problem space and a lot of the apparent success/failure is really a matter of choices and tradeoffs made by the 'customers' who specify the design constraints.

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Re:Did American Missile Defense Fail in Saudi Arabia? by gaius on Monday December 04, 2017 @04:57PM (#15847946)
Aegis + Aegis Ashore definitely seems to have potential. Assuming a Nork threat you would want to intercept mid-trajectory if you could, and that means pre-positioning your platform in the mid-Pacific. If you are intercepting on the terminal phase then things are pretty desperate...
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