Re:Did American Missile Defense Fail in Saudi Arabia?
by rurban on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @03:44AM
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In perspective: The Russian Satan 2 is indefensible, and also the older SS-N-27 Sizzler shot from very nearby submarines. Not enough time to react on those.
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Re:Did American Missile Defense Fail in Saudi Arabia?
by olympus on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @05:48PM
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There's really no such thing as an indefensible missile, just like there's no such thing as an impenetrable computer network. Difficult to defend against, those exist. Missiles with an extremely low probability that we can physically intercept, those exist. But defending against a missile starts as soon as a possibility of launch occurs, and you can bet that a lot of people spend a lot of time figuring out how to defend against "indefensible." They aren't perfect, but they aren't going to bat .000 either.