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Originally posted by Daradon@Nov 2 2004, 08:53 PM
Don't the modern missiles that the U.S and Russia have also have cluster warheads that split apart sometime during their flight and drop somewhere between 6 and 12 bombs or warheads? These would have to be destroyed BEFORE they split to be effective against the threat.
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Are you talking about a Mirv (Multiple Independant Re-Entry Vehicle). It allows a warhead bus to carry up to 12 independant warheads.
thats been around since the late 70's
The thing that you have to worry about is either a FOB (Fractional Orbital Bombardment) where you launch a satellite that carries warheads mounted on rockets that drive down at at a high rate of speed with 0 launch warning.
The missile defense shield would also be useless against upper atmosphere detonations, which are designed to destroy unshielded electronics.