Man, you will argue from a standpoint of ignorance beyond belief!
You keep dancing around and trying to find the smallest of circumstances or facts to support the huge hole you continue to dig for yourself!
This has always included intercepting even a high-speed re-entry vehicle.
And if you want to go that route, let's start talking about various Russian SA "air defense" systems!
You see, you will argue a point from ignorance, and I will counter with information not from ignorance, and you'll keep dancing around like I didn't make them.
And then you'll slowly concede in your follow-ups with the exact same facts I presented, but you desputed, earlier.
Secondly, Sprint accelerated to Mach 10 -- faster than either -- in seconds, and could "throw" a payload into sub-orbit at its altitude 30+ miles in, again, a matter of seconds.
In other words, spirit's range for an interceptor mounted atop is far greater than 25 miles!
It would be considered a "sounding rocket" today, and that is what we do use in NMD, because their sheer, sub-orbital velocity capability.
But if you knew the first thing about engineering mechanics, you might think that one through!
It's like saying "cruise missiles" violate the ABM treaty as well -- let alone they are better for launching the Space Shuttle than its SRBs because of distance.
Man, you are argumentative from a standpoint of gross ignorance beyond belief!
Please explain this to me, as you keep dancing around every freak'n fact and specific detail I have continually pointed out, and never danced around myself.
Who says it's not? Do you know they don't have such capability?
You keep dancing around and trying to find the smallest of circumstances or facts to support the huge hole you continue to dig for yourself!
Patriot, as well as other "MIM" classification missile -- including PAC-3 and THAAD -- are capable of providing all sorts of "air defense."
This has always included intercepting even a high-speed re-entry vehicle.
And if you want to go that route, let's start talking about various Russian SA "air defense" systems!
And so do select, other MIM systems, as well as Russia SA "air defense" systems!
You see, you will argue a point from ignorance, and I will counter with information not from ignorance, and you'll keep dancing around like I didn't make them.
And then you'll slowly concede in your follow-ups with the exact same facts I presented, but you desputed, earlier.
First off, Sprint not only pre-dated the ABM treaty, it was largely developed to force the Russians to the ABM negotiating table (just like Pershing II did for European weapons reductions).
Secondly, Sprint accelerated to Mach 10 -- faster than either -- in seconds, and could "throw" a payload into sub-orbit at its altitude 30+ miles in, again, a matter of seconds.
In other words, spirit's range for an interceptor mounted atop is far greater than 25 miles!
It would be considered a "sounding rocket" today, and that is what we do use in NMD, because their sheer, sub-orbital velocity capability.
But if you knew the first thing about engineering mechanics, you might think that one through!
It's like saying "cruise missiles" violate the ABM treaty as well -- let alone they are better for launching the Space Shuttle than its SRBs because of distance.
Man, you are argumentative from a standpoint of gross ignorance beyond belief!
I did, but I don't see how that "upsets MAD" which is -- as you constantly refer to -- the "spirit" of the ABM treaty.
If the "spirit" of the ABM treaty was to prevent upsetting MAD -- mutually assured destruction -- then how does TMD do that?
Please explain this to me, as you keep dancing around every freak'n fact and specific detail I have continually pointed out, and never danced around myself.
