Originally posted by CFYA
Viking........did it ever occur to you that its already stopped ICBMS? It has on more than one ocassion! What more do you need to prove its a viable weapons system?
Also why are the ruskies so up in arms if it dont work?
All for a very expensive potatoe gun? Use your brain here.
I know for a fast that this system can kill anything in the air regardless of flight profile. All depends on how much that little target is worth to you.
The missiles arent cheap to say the least.
Do you even know the details of this missile system? What type of warhead? Missile flight profile? Anything?
If you do I will be completely amazed!
Shut up before you kill you comrades in the future.
CFYA
My distant friend, my military speciality in the Uni was S-200 SAM technical division officer. 250km range, 40km alt guaranteed kill. ABM capability. Special warheads 20 kiloton, called "improved reliability" 5B28-H (Cyrillic). Our sites were the first targets for your Minutemens.
More to say, I live in the world's only city protected by a WORKING missile shield. Capable of intercepting 5-10 warheads, but you guys still can't match it.
And Viking is right. Missile shield is a useless waste of money. Keep paying your taxes for illusionary security, we don;t mind. It's Euros who will be marked as targets for Iskander short-range missiles, so - leave it to them.
Give me a list of US SAM (AA-defense) kills, if there were any. USSR performed a first ballistic missile interception on March 4th 1960. Good 'ol S-75 knocked out your U-2 at 20km alt on May 1st 1960 over Urals. So Bush was quite reasonable asking for assistance.