Originally posted by Boroda
NMD "shield", when completely deployed, will be capable to intercept 55 ICBM warheads. It's an optimistic estimation. Congrats, Americans, you guys are @#$%ed up again, paying for this toy to military-industrial complex.
Who is wasteing their money? The US for developing something they can use or Russia for developing something that they cannot?
The US shield would be able to make countries like Iran or North Korea with a primitive delivery system and a few nukes unable to bluff the US or hold it hostage.
If Russia was stupid enough to launch every missle it had and totally wipe out the US from tip to tail. It still would not win. Because every few weeks a trident sub would float to within a hundred feet of the surface of the ocean and then launch enough nukes to kill every Russian left on earth before silently floating away.