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US Missile Defense Test Fails
KingRobot sends news that a recent test of a US missile defense system has failed. The test of the Groundbased Midcourse Defense interceptor apparently had a problem with the sea-based X-band radar. Both the target missile, launched from the Pacific, and the interceptor, launched from California, performed as expected. "Yesterday's test was intended to quell doubters of the entire missile-defense approach, with the target missile deploying countermeasures. Critics of the GMD programme say that tests thus far, which have not included such spoilers, have been too kind to the intercept tech. The [military] isn't disclosing whether the intercepting kill vehicle had simply failed to reach the 'threat cluster' of warhead(s) and decoys, or whether it had reached the cluster but hit a countermeasure rather than the actual target."
I don't want to live in a world where the US can threaten nuclear attack knowing that it can't be retaliated against.
Property is theft.
Eh, the only cities that the short little fucker over to the west could reach which would be worthwhile would be in California, or possibly Vegas. So I say let him. Leftist population control and object lesson why the leftists were wrong on this issue, all rolled into one. Iran won't get that far because the Israelis WILL take that fucker out if necessary.