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Originally posted by CaptainCrunch@Nov 2 2004, 09:27 PM
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@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.
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Yeah, those MIRV's were what I was talking about.
I knew they had been around for some time, I just meant 'modern' as compared to other nations rocketry systems. Nations that don't even have an advanced rocketry system wouldn't have these obviously, and it would be other sep up the development curve. [/b][/quote]
Countries that currently have Mirv technology
USA, RUSSIA, UK (Sub based), France (Sub based)
Countries that have long range balistic missile technology with large megaton warhead (single)
USA, Russia, China, North Korea