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Offline stiehl

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« Reply #15 on: March 23, 2004, 05:39:48 PM »
of course those "interceptors" only work some of the time, when the target is already known and plotted and traveling at slow speeds.
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« Reply #16 on: March 23, 2004, 06:30:07 PM »
Hopefully it will be more accurate than the Patriot 10% hit ratio.:rofl
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« Reply #17 on: March 23, 2004, 06:31:51 PM »
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Hopefully it will be more accurate than the Patriot 10% hit ratio.:rofl


You do know that the Patriot was designed for anti-aircraft and not anti-missile right?
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« Reply #18 on: March 23, 2004, 06:44:51 PM »
Missile defence is a waste of resources and money and just another toy for the military to develop and spend money on. Plus it makes the administration look as if they are doing something about national defence.

The likelyhood of a bomb isn't going to come from a nation with ICBM's due to the reason it hasn't in the past 50 years even during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It will come by terrorists and they aren't going to bother with an ICBM attack when you can simply UPS the bomb to anywhere in the world and set it off by a cell phone.

Unfortunetly this basic technology of the terroist leapfrogs that of any Missile Defence technolgy costing billions.

There is more chance today of a bomb nuclear,radiation or otherwise going off somewhere in the world then there ever was during the cold war and they certinly wont broadcast the event by launching a missile.




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« Reply #19 on: March 23, 2004, 07:00:51 PM »
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Missile defence is a waste of resources and money and just another toy for the military to develop and spend money on. Plus it makes the administration look as if they are doing something about national defence.

The likelyhood of a bomb isn't going to come from a nation with ICBM's due to the reason it hasn't in the past 50 years even during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It will come by terrorists and they aren't going to bother with an ICBM attack when you can simply UPS the bomb to anywhere in the world and set it off by a cell phone.

Unfortunetly this basic technology of the terroist leapfrogs that of any Missile Defence technolgy costing billions.

There is more chance today of a bomb nuclear,radiation or otherwise going off somewhere in the world then there ever was during the cold war and they certinly wont broadcast the event by launching a missile.




...-Gixer


I'm assuming you've got a degree in world conflict and work in the pentagon?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,889679,00.html

http://search.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/06/22/text/p6s1.html

http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/may/30war2.htm
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« Reply #20 on: March 23, 2004, 07:19:51 PM »
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You do know that the Patriot was designed for anti-aircraft and not anti-missile right?


Sure it is....:rolleyes:

http://www.raytheon.com/products/patriot/
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« Reply #21 on: March 23, 2004, 07:36:52 PM »
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Sure it is....:rolleyes:

http://www.raytheon.com/products/patriot/


Put down the google search and step away from the keyboard before you make yourself look any more foolish of something you have no clue about.

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The Patriot was originally built nearly 40 years ago to shoot down aircraft. But just before the 1991 Gulf War, its manufacturer, Raytheon, modified the Patriot to shoot down tactical ballistic missiles.
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« Reply #22 on: March 23, 2004, 07:46:05 PM »
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How about Both MT?

Did I miss a thread?


I posted it on the Checksix forum. The real story I mean. Thread titled "Interesting Lunch".
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« Reply #23 on: March 23, 2004, 08:04:56 PM »
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I'm assuming you've got a degree in world conflict and work in the pentagon?]




No it's just my opinon on the matter, are you ever able to have a debate without resorting to personal comments?  If your looking for some more web sites  for information on the subject read this one.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/nmd.htm



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« Reply #24 on: March 23, 2004, 08:43:18 PM »
Aw man, I thought the Soviet Union was gone!
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« Reply #25 on: March 23, 2004, 09:13:02 PM »
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Put down the google search and step away from the keyboard before you make yourself look any more foolish of something you have no clue about.



If Raytheon modified it to hit missiles, shouldn't we expect a little more than 10%?
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« Reply #26 on: March 23, 2004, 09:29:58 PM »
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If Raytheon modified it to hit missiles, shouldn't we expect a little more than 10%?


Perhaps, but then again maybe not. Like I said, it wasn't designed, maybe I should have clarified, originally designed to shoot down missiles. This latest stuff is.
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« Reply #27 on: March 23, 2004, 09:55:57 PM »
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I'm assuming you've got a degree in world conflict and work in the pentagon?


Cripes Rip that's hypocritical.  You say that and then present your "expert" sources of "theaten" as an an actual threat.


I so happens that most think-tanks as well as DND have come to the exact same conclusion as Gixer.

You don't even actually believe that ICBMs are a great threat as a delivery system so I have no idea why you are arguing it.
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« Reply #28 on: March 23, 2004, 10:01:31 PM »
Better to have 'em and not need 'em than the other way around.
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« Reply #29 on: March 23, 2004, 10:27:40 PM »
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Put down the google search and step away from the keyboard before you make yourself look any more foolish of something you have no clue about.


I dunno Rip you cut & paste and reaffirmed what i had previously written. That the Patriot is in fact an anti-missile system and not just an anti-aircraft missile system as Iron first mentioned. Then with your bbs wisdom you call me foolish. :)

Didn't Bush Sr and the Army ask for billions more while touting a 90% hit ratio after the Gulf War, it only took congressional hearings to get the actual ratio which was only 10%  ;)

and you freakout aboot a BJ. :aok
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