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You'd also have to consider the likelihood of one getting through your laser defences, and what the cost of protecting your country with these would be. If you
by jsty 7y ago
You'd also have to consider the likelihood of one getting through your laser defences, and what the cost of protecting your country with these would be.
If you have a 99% chance of stopping a missile, but your adversary has tens or hundreds of thousands of missiles to fire at you, those aren't great odds.
Plus in a pinch, modern societies could probably come up with some fairly hideous deterrent weapons that didn't require missile delivery.
- b_tterc_p 7y agoThat’s a good point, and in fact probability of error doesn’t even need to come into play. If you can destroy 10 missiles per second with probability 1, then you have a 0% chance of stopping 11 missiles at once. Massive simplifications here but the point stands. Scale matters.