GISGEOLOGYGEEK said: "The new Russian system announced recently does all this. Each missle carries more warheads (10 or 12), and the missle travels much faster than previous missles."
Question about gravity GIS: Russian ballistic missles currently have a fly-off speed of about 7KPS (15,000MPH) which is pretty close to orbital velocity, 7.663KPS. Doesn't that mean that if Russian "missles travel much faster than previous missles" they would...um, go into orbit rather than hit targets in North America?
Did the Russians get some sort of exemption from basic physics?
Also, it seems to me that the majority of cost of a missle defense system is, just like ever other major weapons system since WWII, a combination of R&D, manufacturing facilities and basic infrastructure. The incremental cost of adding ordinance to such a system is actually pretty small, so it wouldn't seem all that difficult to counter increasing numbers of targets with increasing numbers of interceptors.
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GISGEOLOGYGEEK said: "The new Russian system announced recently does all this. Each missle carries more warheads (10 or 12), and the missle travels much faster than previous missles."
Question about gravity GIS: Russian ballistic missles currently have a fly-off speed of about 7KPS (15,000MPH) which is pretty close to orbital velocity, 7.663KPS. Doesn't that mean that if Russian "missles travel much faster than previous missles" they would...um, go into orbit rather than hit targets in North America?
Did the Russians get some sort of exemption from basic physics?
Also, it seems to me that the majority of cost of a missle defense system is, just like ever other major weapons system since WWII, a combination of R&D, manufacturing facilities and basic infrastructure. The incremental cost of adding ordinance to such a system is actually pretty small, so it wouldn't seem all that difficult to counter increasing numbers of targets with increasing numbers of interceptors.