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Old 05-06-2008, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by crowonapost View Post
What are anti ballistic missile going to shoot down? What nation state is going to attack us? China? Russia. I really don;t think so.

North Korea? They can barely get them across Japan. Even if they could lob...one, the existing state of things in our weapons systems would completely obliterate them.

Seriously to spend trillions of dollars on missiles shooting missiles is just a way for Boeing to make money & siphon it off from working on more effective strategies to fight terrorism. Simply put anti ballistic missiles are ineffective against asymmetrical warfare.
They haven't had all that much success with anti ballistic missile systems even against traditional systems.....from what I understand, even the Patriots were far less succesful than portrayed in the media. 'course that doesn't make front page news....

Yep, the money could be far better spent.
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