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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

jimmyz211a - 03:14pm Aug 12, 2001 EST (#7851 of 7905)

I believe that an anti-missile system can be built using an Aegis cruiser platform. Also planes can be equiped to use lasers or missiles to shoot ballistic missiles down before decoys are deployed. The ships and planes will have heavy defensive capabilities, or a CAP/combat air patrol surrounding them to prevent their destruction. They will also have jamming and anti-jamming capabilities. I was on an old Adams class destroyer, the USS Lawrence DDG-4 and we always hit our target, both with missiles and guns. Some of the hits where metal to metal indicted by our AEI/angle error indicator. It surprises me that we can't hit one down with a missile 9 years later after I retired. A land based system can be vunerable, but if placed in Alaska, or Canada, it would be a challenge for our enemies to knock it out. I believe our government isn't telling us the full threat. Why are we all of a sudden in such a hurry to deploy an ABM? Does our government believe that rouge countries already have, or are very close to having a nuclear weapons that can hit the United States? China probably has about 100 nuclear missiles that can hit our major cities. North Korea has a few that can hit Hawaii and Alaska. Who else is there? Also our submarines can be an awesome threat to our advisaries, maybe in both shooting down and attacking our enemies. The 1972 ABM treaty is old history. Russia now says it would start an arms race. Where did Russia all of a sudden get money for weapons? Was it from all the loans they defaulted on, or are they going to starve their people again? Now that China has the 2008 Olympics maybe we can worry less about them attacking us? I believe that an anti-missile system can be built using an Aegis cruiser platform. Also planes can be equiped to use lasers or missiles to shoot ballistic missiles down before decoys are deployed. The ships and planes will have heavy defensive capabilities, or a CAP/combat air patrol surrounding them to prevent their destruction. They will also have jamming and anti-jamming capabilities. I was on an old Adams class destroyer, the USS Lawrence DDG-4 and we always hit our target, both with missiles and guns. Some of the hits where metal to metal indicted by our AEI/angle error indicator. It surprises me that we can't hit one down with a missile 9 years later after I retired. A land based system can be vunerable, but if placed in Alaska, or Canada, it would be a challenge for our enemies to knock it out. I believe our government isn't telling us the full threat. Why are we all of a sudden in such a hurry to deploy an ABM? Does our government believe that rouge countries already have, or are very close to having a nuclear weapons that can hit the United States? China probably has about 100 nuclear missiles that can hit our major cities. North Korea has a few that can hit Hawaii and Alaska. Who else is there? Also our submarines can be an awesome threat to our advisaries, maybe in both shooting down and attacking our enemies. The 1972 ABM treaty is old history. Russia now says it would start an arms race. Where did Russia all of a sudden get money for weapons? Was it from all the loans they defaulted on, or are they going to starve their people again? Now that China has the 2008 Olympics maybe we can worry less about them attacking us? James Zioilkowski shellback211@aol.com ten year Navy veteran I believe that an anti-missile system can be built using an Aegis cruiser platform. Also planes can be equiped to use lasers or missiles to shoot ballistic missiles down before decoys are deployed. The ships and planes will have heavy defensive capabilities, or a CAP/combat air patrol surrounding them to prevent their destruction. They will also have jamming and anti-jamming capabilities. I was on an old Adams class destroyer, the USS Lawrence DDG-4 and we always hit our target, both with missiles and guns. Some of the hits where metal to metal indicted by our AEI/angle error indicator. It surprises me th

lunarchick - 08:43pm Aug 12, 2001 EST (#7852 of 7905)
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Re above posting:

http://web2.iadfw.net/scsr/Immunity.htm http://www.google.com/search?q=ballistic+missiles+&btnG=Google+Search http://www.sinclair.edu/sec/his103/diary/103d01o.htm http://www.nawcwpns.navy.mil/~pacrange/news/GPS.htm http://www.squakmountain.org/dol/images/ddg40004.jpg http://www.google.com/search?q=USS+Lawrence+DDG-4&btnG=Google+Search http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=AEI+angle+error+indicator&btnG=Google+Search http://www.gohawaii.com/

lunarchick - 08:55pm Aug 12, 2001 EST (#7853 of 7905)
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The bombing came three days after a similar attack in a Jerusalem restaurant left 16 dead.

Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the latest bomb attack, which has raised the threat of fresh retaliatory action by Israel.

In a further outbreak of violence on Sunday, a seven-year-old Palestinian girl was shot dead in the West Bank city of Hebron, hospital officials said. Palestinian security sources said she was killed by ...

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