If THAAD and/or SM2,3 or 6 AEGIS-BMD are within range of the next Nork launch, and it being a very small country, it is likely at least one or two launchers ARE within range, why not shoot that fat little gook's toys out of the air? Not for any defensive purposes, but just to fucking humiliate him? It doesn't matter where they are going, just shoot them down and make it a policy to do so whenever possible. Better yet: pretend to make it a policy, watch the Norks look for edge-of range launch sites, let one slip by while pretending to shoot at it, then when he thinks he has a place to fire from, let him actually aim on too close to an ally and shoot it down, then nuke him.
I see no downsides to this. If we do it, we shut him the fuck up for a bit. If he 'zerks out, we crush the Norks forever and China loses its client country and puppet. Fuck this guy, let's shoot his shit down.
>shouldn't you mean can't? THAAD is a meme, it can only shoot down ~60% of targets in perfect conditions.
Aiden Taylor
They cant, it cant shoot down ICBMs.
Luke Diaz
Because despite all the rhetoric, military top brass isn't very confident it will actually work. A failed attempt at intercepting will be an embarrassment and change the leverage both sides have in this situation.
Anthony Walker
Why should they? US doesn't have to do anything more than tell you that NK is evil for you to push for globalism.
Josiah Ward
smarter idea would be to """successfully""" shoot down one of their (((own))) missiles
Andrew Stewart
this. cost of failure is too much in terms of $$$, morale and military image
Isaac Reed
pretty sure only SM3 is for BMD and i don't think worst korea have them, just the japs
Owen Price
THAAD so far, in its first iteration's TESTS, has shot down 60%. The refinements of late have moved it closer to 100%. So, you know... now the Japs are buying more of the latest block.
PROTIP: Midcourse BMD can handle actual ICBMs from Norks. Fat kid has been firing off IRBMs, SRBMs, etc. (well within THAAD and SM variant capabilities). I don't expect the USA to expose its full power level with ICBMs until more capabilities and stocks are in place (last 'official' count of MCD interceptors in the budget was 64, last public reporting in media was about 36).
I am not seeing arguments why not, I am seeing jelly bongs and roo shitposters. Nork missiles are not emus, Roo-bro. Fear not. And Bong, maybe you didn't know about MCD BMD, but now you do. There are other capabilities hinted at in the budget proposals. Those are available online.
Dylan Parker
SM6 and SM6ER have been cert'd for BMD (former limited to SRBMs), and the SM2ER is certified on certain platforms as well (with limited confidence except against SRBMs). But yes, SM3/ER/EC is the dedicated specialist at the moment. As to your point, Best Korea has recently upgraded AEGIS on its Sejong the Great class and already had SM6ERs. The SM3 is rumored to have been installed on at least 1, as well as the upgrades to allow the radar system to engage in BMD and AAI simultaneously.
Brody Wright
That's too hard to fake with 3 hostile radar systems tracking the area constantly on every band and both commercial and govt. satellite surveillance of the spot ongoing.
Liam Evans
interesting, is THAAD an evolved Patriot or is that something else?
Lincoln Campbell
Military top brass is pretty confident. They keep asking for more launchers, ammo and development plus publishing harsher expected standards that the system keeps hurdling (hence their positive appraisals) for all the BMD projects... The Admirals and Generals aren't the shot callers, the cabinet and the aged orangutan are. That's where any pussified failure fears are.
John Taylor
Their roles overlap only in the SRBM realm and then not very much. Patriot is more similar to the naval SM-based systems, overlapping all AEGIS levels with its PAC-3 evolution except for the SM6ER/EC and SM3 IRBM and proposed ICBM SM3ER/EA.
I think running into shipping container vessels has done enough damage to the military image, that and all the suicides.
Nathan Stewart
I suspect that some crews are quietly in mutiny mode to a degree. I have a cousin who said the old Cold-War 69-in-72 battle stations drill is the new Battle 'E' among 'up or out' officers and combined with up to 10 months of duty, 3-4 drills a month, people are just exhausted. That kid who hid in the engineering section a month or two ago apparently is considered a hero by the crew, who stood down from their LARPy over-drilling for the time he was 'missing at sea'.
I do not doubt that one or two of those 4 collisions could have been unintentionally intentional on some junior enlisted watch's part. But I am also hearing that standing deck watch is getting shit on because of the new 'fewer sailors and more systems' ship design.
Jack Ward
Here is the thing with the "anti-ballistic missiles don't work" argument. I know that China for example knows whether or not they work because they are in the habit of knowing everything about our tech and our counter-intel is helpless to stop them. Knowing that they know, why would they flip their shit whenever we moved platforms like THAAD into their theaters if said platforms are a big joke? Is it underwater 4D chess? I have trouble accepting that.
Robert Morales
sergeant Anastasia wants to give you anesthesia
Aiden Edwards
I don't really want NK trying to shoot down satellites that overpass NK.
Nicholas Rodriguez
US wont shoot down an actual missile, because it cant. THAAD is a scam and so is AEGIS. Its all smoke and mirrors meant to keep our opponents guessing.
If we take a shot with our supposed super advanced anti missile stuff and it fails against 1960s era icbm technology, then the jig is up.
The best aegis can manage is to mow down anti shipping missiles that are at least 30 years old. It cant even kill modern chinese or russian designs.
Camden Green
listen carefully feg i wont repeat dis shit inall topics it wont shoot them down because >n1 this will reveal its operational characteristics and (((they))) will take note of dis >n2 it will needlessly escalate the situation >n3 if it even slightly messes up sth there will be an international shitstorm flame
John Clark
cause they want you out of asia, duh even thaad isn't advertised to be able to counter icbm(s) which is like the only thing relevant in a china-us nuclear holocaust
Samuel Ward
Father of lies is lying again. Nice try, memeflag prime from Russiastan.
Brayden Stewart
>fully grown gook has the height and constitution of a 13yo when will they learn?
Hudson Robinson
I will repeat this in all topics:
I do not care what escalates. We need a massive depopulation effort fast, brutal and weighted towards the worst polluters in the world. China gone? America? Good. India and Pakistan? Bonus. Nuke the oilfields? Done. Africa? Starves to death after the first famine, and Europe, if not nuked, will be a lot more like Hungary and a lot less like Merkelistan toward migrafugees since they will likely be trying to keep hordes of surviving irradiated Russians out.
I say those faggots just need to do eeet.
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