re: Were we wrong about Iran's strike on Israel?

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Yes--if nothing is in the way, ID doesn't fire. It also doesn't do much to combat ballistic missiles anyway, and was never intended to. ID is designed for low altitude garage-made projectiles at close range.

The Arrow (Patriot-derivative) and David's Sling systems are Israel's long-range/high altitude interceptor platforms.

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Missile defense is only useful against rogue nations with limited capability. Even The US mainland defense is basically incapable of determining decoys or being effective against concentrated attacks. Our (and their) missile defense would be useless against hypersonic. The only "protection" remains assured mutual destruction. I always wonder how the world would react if a hypersonic launched from an unknown sub. We arent shooting it down. Would we just barrage any country capable? Would we just huddle and pray that it's not an EMP? Sure, we'd still be able to retaliate afterwards but the damage would be done. The vast majority of the population would die.


Military might is relatively inconsequential if you're dead serious about your mission.