Star Wars II (US Ready to activate ABM program)

[Robb]

U.S. ready to activate 1st phase of anti-missile program

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After years of top-secret research and billions of dollars in expenditures, the first phase of a national missile defense system is about to be deployed under Kadish's command, even as debate rages over the necessity, cost and effectiveness of the program.

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It promises an abundance of show-stopping gadgetry, such as the self-propelled floating radar being assembled on the Texas Gulf Coast. The globe-shaped radar rises 25 stories from the deck of an ocean-going platform. It is so powerful that it can detect a golf-ball-size object more than 3,000 miles away.

Then there are multiple kill vehicles being developed by Lockheed engineers in Grand Prairie, among others. Resembling aerodynamic coffee cans, the vehicles can crash into inbound missiles at 14,000 mph, disintegrating the target by sheer force and speed and avoiding a midair explosion that would rain debris on Earth.

Giant airships, 21st century versions of the lighter-than-air behemoths used in World War I, would keep watch more than 12 miles above the earth. Military versions of 747 jumbo jets would smash enemy missiles with lasers.

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[bemildred]

1. Well, if bullshit will shoot down ICBMs then we are in good shape. nt

[Taeger]

2. Airships already in service !!!

Giant airships, 21st century versions of the lighter-than-air behemoths used in World War I, would keep watch more than 12 miles above the earth. Military versions of 747 jumbo jets would smash enemy missiles with lasers.


Some these airships are already secretly in service.

A VERY well documented case saw a triangular hovering UFO travelling over Southern Illinois toward an air base in Missouri.

WAAAAY too many people saw THE SAME thing on THE SAME NIGHT. They have TONS of 911 calls on the thing. It DID exist. And I seriously DOUBT it was an alien spacecraft.


Unfortunately, I can't find a good link on it. Anyone else familiar with the incident I'm describing???? I believe it was in the mid or early 90s. A lot of people speculate it was a "stealth blimp" with aero-dynamic characteristics which allowed it to fly a bit faster than your typical "lighter than air" craft.

[BR_Parkway]

3. It might help keep some jobs in this country.

The total cost could exceed $100 billion, congressional budget analysts say.

and would be a huge improvement over pissing away that same money on an illegal war in Iraq. Not to mention the number of American soldiers who WON'T get killed.

[JoFerret]

8. Ridiculous theory

if you belief in that kind of thing then why not use that money to employ people to repair roads, take care of the elderly, teach in underserved areas and generally do something that improves the quality of our lives and strengthens the nation.

[Sophree]

4. but but but

I thought no one ever dreamed that airplanes would be used as missiles???!!???
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[Q3JR4]

5. According to an

American Physical Society report, the new Star Wars program--given today's technology--would be impossible to implement with any measure of success.

Then again, when have we known a Republican administration to look scientific evidence?

[Dudley_DUright]

7. To be fair, the APS study only addressed the physics

of boost phase ABM. On the other hand, critics like Ted Postol at MIT have also pointed out major problems with the the NMD currently being deployed (and I agree with Ted's assessment).

http://www-tech.mit.edu/V120/N29/postol.29n.html

[mobuto]

6. National Raytheon Subsidy

Ready and reporting for duty, SIR.