A Ground-based Interceptor missile, an element of the nation’s Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, launched from North Vandenberg Sept. 12, 2021. (U.S. Space Force photo by Airman Kadielle Shaw)
Breaking Defense: No US missile defense system proven capable against ‘realistic’ ICBM threats: Study
Missile Defense Agency pushes back, pointing Breaking Defense to positive report from Pentagon tester, laudatory comments from senior military officials and recent test wins.
WASHINGTON: A new study of US missile defenses has found that — after 70 years and some $350 billion in investment — no “system thus far developed has been shown to be effective against realistic ICBM threats” to the homeland. It’s a conclusion with which the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency begs to differ.
The study by the American Physical Society (APS) examined a hypothetical North Korean strike and current missile defense systems, such as ground-based interceptors, as well as more futuristic options in development, like directed energy weapons and space-based interceptors. It found today’s capabilities inadequate and future systems unlikely to do the job of defending the country in the next 15 years at least — even from a small number of North Korean missiles.
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WNU Editor: A sobering read. Makes you wonder if it is all worth.
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Academics have been anti defense spending for years. These organizations are partisan too, as in far left partisans. On the other hand the defense lobby is all about protecting budgets.
Who is right? Neither.
One important aspect of any weapons is to put doubt in an opponent's mind that they will prevail or that they will prevail without great cost.
No system has even a chance of intercepting 10+ MIRVs simultaenously. The program is about nothing more than stationing cruise missiles close enough to Moscow for preemptive strike capability. Always has been.
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