It's a lot compared to other states. |
It's a lot easier to hit one of our own targets on a test range than it is for them to actually intercept nuclear- tipped missiles in a combat environment. |
It's a market that almost didn't exist five years ago, and it's now very competitive. |
It's a zero sum competition among these politicians to bring home the bacon. |
It's all political. You have politicians on the BRAC commission who were appointed by politicians and who were they talking to? Politicians, |
It's basically designed to get across the beach and get a few dozen miles inland. The point being, once (Marines) had managed to secure the beachhead and get a few miles inland, the Army would come ashore and take over from there. |
It's certainly not going to be able to intercept all of them all of the time, |
It's certainly not going to be able to intercept all of them all of the time. If we're talking about incoming nuclear missiles, that imperfect defense is going to simply be a false sense of security. |
It's discredited the American military without any basis in fact, |
It's risky because both sides have the capacity to escalate. |
It's somewhere between irrelevant and counterproductive. Since the Iraqi army disintegrated, the weapon of choice has become a sniper. That's the ultimate in precision firepower. |
It's the best simulation you can get, unfortunately. |
Labs like Los Alamos are working with private industry to develop a number of technologies like this, but whether these guys think they have a magic bullet is a different matter, |
Labs like Los Alamos are working with private industry to develop a number of technologies like this, but whether these guys think they have a magic bullet is a different matter. |
Millimeter-wave sensor technology has the potential to locate camouflaged objects on the ground or help guide missiles. |