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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Or Russian can take advantage of it. I like Putin he's my kind of diabolical evel genius.
I've always been fairly negative on the missile defense concept because firepower always always stays ahead of armour. Offense always progresses before defense, so while a missile defense system might work well against old technology delivery systems is small numbers, it probably wouldn't work well against hundreds of todays more advanced ballistic missiles.
I'm all for putting a missile offense system in place myself. Enough missiles to shower every man woman and child with a generous multi tonnage delivery.
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I agree totally with this
The Shield's purpose was against "Rogue States" that would maybe be able to launch a handful or missiles at the very most. There was no way it would be able to prevent a nuclear armed nation such as Russia or China from launching a first strike. This is especially the case when those 2 countries could counter the system by deploying very cheap decoys into their delivery systems to overwhelm the defence shield