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Another consideration is that much of this assumes we have zero anti-missle capability. With the Iron Dome knocking artillery shells fired from 3 miles away out
by willcipriano 5y ago
Another consideration is that much of this assumes we have zero anti-missle capability. With the Iron Dome knocking artillery shells fired from 3 miles away out of the air I think that's a bad assumption to make.
- leetcrew 5y agothe iron dome is mainly used to shoot down shitty rockets traveling around 200 m/s, and at great relative cost. ICBMs are going about ~7 km/s at reentry. it would require an entirely different level of capability to achieve any reasonable kill probability against those.
- willcipriano 5y agoThey are also coming from much further away, so we have a lot more advance notice. They don't really have a way to defend themselves in flight and are pretty heavy, so a smaller missle going a shorter distance with a smaller payload should be able to outmaneuver it easily. I'm sure it's not perfect but I'm certain the capacity exists.
- more_corn 5y agoI’m not sure you’re properly thinking through orbital velocities.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoThat existed, once: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile) It would need many of something like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program to function. Pharaonic!
- more_corn 5y agoIt’s really east to cram 5 dummy warheads in your icbm and chew up all the defenders rockets.