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re: Gordon Chang - America's Anti Missile Defense System has a 56% failure rate
Posted on 3/12/17 at 3:17 pm to ChexMix
Posted on 3/12/17 at 3:17 pm to ChexMix
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56% failure rate
Doubt it. Everything public is usually low balled when it comes to classified military capabilities.
Not sure what the land based defense system is but Navy BMD destroyers have a higher rate than that.
Anti ballistic missles are cheaper and smaller than the ballistic missles that carry more fuel and larger payloads. You won't shoot one at an ICBM, you'd shoot a volley at X% per missle. Then a second volley, and a third if necessary
This post was edited on 3/12/17 at 4:12 pm
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Posted on 3/12/17 at 3:31 pm to Lsuchs
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Not sure what the land based defense system is but Navy BMD destroyers have a higher rate than that.
The BMD focuses on a much easier to target stage of Ballistic Missile flight an American Land Based system would presumably focus on either the space phase (think top of the bell) or the terminal phase (re-entry, etc)-- that's much, much harder to hit.
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