"Tough" talk from Iran

[Flash]

Can't we shoot down most missiles these days relatively easily? I mean, we did obliterate a satellite.

Uhhh, no. Probably one of the hardest things to do actually, especially considering how many different types of missile are out there. And MDA as a whole does not have the best of track records at it. The Navy component of it is where they have made the most 'money'.

Satellites have known orbits, even ones that are falling out of the sky. It is kind of like blowing up the 9:30 train, pretty easy to do compared to a missile. You may or may not know when and where a missile is going to get launched at you, expecially if the launcher is mobile. Kind of like a dirt bike coming at you from the woods somewhere in front of you, or maybe behind.

A very hard target, and a very hard problem to solve.

 

[Mumbles]

like Flasher said....
it's pretty mush trying to shoot a bullet with another bullet. That being said, we do it better than anyone else and the Israelis completed a successful test of the Arrow ABM a few days ago.

 

[m0tbaillie]

I'm sure it's no small task, but couldn't a decent model be built off something like say, the AEGIS system that the Navy uses?

 

[raptor10]

Here, check this out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiballistic_missile

 

[m0tbaillie]

I'll take it!

 

[Lobster]

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Sweet pic!

"Iran's powerful speaker of parliament warned other countries Wednesday not to provoke Iran and cautioned against moves that would "cost them heavily."

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Really? powerful speaker? Cost them heavily?

give your head a shake Iran

 

[Flash]

I'm sure it's no small task, but couldn't a decent model be built off something like say, the AEGIS system that the Navy uses?

We already have a system built off that, but it only takes care of a small part of the problem. It is a much bigger problem than you think.

 

[Immy]

We already have a system built off that, but it only takes care of a small part of the problem. It is a much bigger problem than you think.

Can you elaborate? lol I'm curious about it now....

 

[Flash]

Can you elaborate? lol I'm curious about it now....

Elaborate of what, the Navy part or the bigger problem part?

To answer the first, here is some info on SM-3, the Navy's ABM:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/sm3.htm

http://www.mda.mil/mdalink/html/faq.html

As for the second one, that is a much longer answer......

 

[jt71582]

Even if we DO have the capability to take these missiles out, I don't want to let the Iranians keep the program going and *hope* they don't use them.

 

[OUSOONER]

Even if we DO have the capability to take these missiles out, I don't want to let the Iranians keep the program going and *hope* they don't use them.

You better believe they would try to use them. If a shooting war was about to go down, this might be their only chance to fire off a salvo at Isreal and our forward bases in the Middle East..before we make their lights go out...and their command and control along with it.

 

[LazersGoPEWPEW]

You better believe they would try to use them. If a shooting war was about to go down, this might be their only chance to fire off a salvo at Isreal and our forward bases in the Middle East..before we make their lights go out...and their command and control along with it.

And this is why we have Lazers that Go PEW PEW! To shoot the missiles down. LAWLZ!

On a more serious note is that Airborne Laser System up to somewhat operational status yet?

 

[m0tbaillie]

And this is why we have Lazers that Go PEW PEW! To shoot the missiles down. LAWLZ!

Every single time I see your nickname, without fail, I think of this: