Comments on: Navy’s Missile Defense Hits Land

By: satcom

satcom — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:44:20 +0000

The destruction of USA 193 last year , to ensure that any components from the stricken satellite did not fall into the hands of adveraries , was obviously the testing ground for this system.
The satellite was a target of opportuntiy , disguised as a “toxic threat” and it would be naive to think any different.

Having said that , the mission was a great success and so its not surprising that land based deployment of the SM-3 is on the cards.
Its just a shame that the DoD had to go to such lengths to hoodwink the public .

By: Joel Monty

Joel Monty — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:11:40 +0000

Why does the Navy need to be involved in land based missile defense? It is the Air Force’s Army’s responsibility for this.

By: roland

roland — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:31:33 +0000

I am proud of our star wars or the Ronnie Raygun system and patriot missiles we have already and I have seen it tested at more than 95% effective. But with the remaining 5%. I think it is recomendable to have this SM3 to have 100% effectiveness on defense.

By: PrahaPartizan

PrahaPartizan — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:02:33 +0000

I presume that the US Navy is considering land-basing this system to provide protection against SRBMs and MRBMs and possibly IRBMs. Those are the systems against which the SM-3 has been tested. The article conveys the impression that the SM-3 would be effective against real ICBMs through its reference to the Polish base siting. To my knowledge, no tests have been conducted against real ICBMs and certainly none against ICBMs deploying counter-measures and decoys. The only benefit of even considering putting such missiles in Poland is that it would likely make the Russians even more intransigent than they have been about our deploying ABM systems in Central Europe, which would be a real bonus.

By: Raystrong

Raystrong — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:57:13 +0000

5150.. it’s called the Patriot missle and the Hawk missle system, give it a look before you start your criticism.

By: roland

roland — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:45:51 +0000

If the enemy missles will arrive at my house in the next few seconds, why are we still waiting for 2012 to develop our defense system? Why not develop it today?

By: Colin Clark

Colin Clark — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:47:27 +0000

Benjamin,

It’s the threat this system would be used against.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:40:07 +0000

Not sure why a picture of a failed Iranian missile launch is shown with this article for a US system. A picture of the US Aegis system, or an SM-3 launch, would more appropriate.

By: VJ2044

VJ2044 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:43:15 +0000

WE SHOULD PUT THE MONEY TO GOOD USE INSTEAD OF THROWING GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD MONEY.

By: 5150wazoo

5150wazoo — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:33:49 +0000

Awesome! The only thing I don’t like about the project is that is gives tacit approval to the aggressive party to continue with a destablizing WMD program…to the point of actually using it.

Also, have you ever seen a missle system that works perfectly yet?