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Shields Up!
After tens of billions spent in tests over the past two decades, the missile defense shield just got its first interceptor in Alaska.
Don't you feel safe?
Don't you feel safe?
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Shee-it... they could've given me a mere 100 million and I would've chased down some missiles myself.I'm consitently stupid- Japher
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Let's hope no-one in the world has more than 20 missiles... and the hit rate is 100%.
What a waste of money.Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
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Why are you being so pessimistic, MikeH? don't you realize that this means that Osama can't launch his ICBMs anymore?
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The patriot missiles have consistently improved over the last 20 years. I have no reason to believe that the missile shield will not improve in like fashion.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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How many missiles do they think Kim will have by the end of next year?
BTW is "robust test program" still shorthand for "it doesn't work properly but we'll fire a few off and claim it exceeds specifications anyway"?Never give an AI an even break.Comment
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Yeah, but the PAC-3 is madly expensive. Some guys here are developing a cheaper guidance system that would be just as useful.Comment
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Tell that to the relatives of the RAF Tornado crew shot down by a patriot battery over Iraq.Originally posted by DanS
The patriot missiles have consistently improved over the last 20 years.Never give an AI an even break.Comment
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All of this crap is madly expensive, Azazel. Why should PAC-3 or the missile shield be any different?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Nothing is ever 100% in this business. I think you know this.Tell that to the relatives of the RAF Tornado crew shot down by a patriot battery over Iraq.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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All of this crap is madly expensive, Azazel. Why should PAC-3 or the missile shield be any different?
Replace the word 'crap' with 'pork', and you're realize why it is.
for example, the Nautilus Tactical laser will cost 4-8k per shot, instead of the millions per a Patriot PAC3 missile.
The Arrow ABM cost the USA only a billion USD to develop, and I presume a similar amount was spent by Israel. So that's 2 billion for that threat. This is TENS of billions of dollars.Comment
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And this "shield" against a virtually non-existent threat cost how many additional Army and Marine divisions we could have been using to hunt down and kill real enemies with real capabilities?Originally posted by DanS
The patriot missiles have consistently improved over the last 20 years. I have no reason to believe that the missile shield will not improve in like fashion.
So the missile shield improves - anyone who nukes us will have to use another delivery method.
When all else fails, blame brown people. | Hire a teen, while they still know it all. | Trump-Palin 2016. "You're fired." "I quit."Comment
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The missile hit the target selected for it, did it not?Originally posted by CerberusIV
Tell that to the relatives of the RAF Tornado crew shot down by a patriot battery over Iraq.When all else fails, blame brown people. | Hire a teen, while they still know it all. | Trump-Palin 2016. "You're fired." "I quit."Comment
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And this "shield" against a virtually non-existent threat cost how many additional Army and Marine divisions we could have been using to hunt down and kill real enemies with real capabilities?
So the missile shield improves - anyone who nukes us will have to use another delivery method.
That's the most important part. The sky is the last place you should be looking for your incoming nukes.Comment
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