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Originally Posted by _Q_
Why is Canada not involved in BMD? And doesn't the NATO charter require all members to defend in the event of an attack on one of its members?
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The NATO charter and Norad agreement are separate as is the BMD.
The American's are well within their rights to tell us to go pound sand, then use a nuclear strike on Canada to launch an attack on North Korea under the NATO charters.
In the event of a single missile strike, I can see the American's shooting the missile down, over Canadian territory, if they had the technology and assets in place to do it, they don't that's the bubble of the BMD shield, you have to actually have systems in place in Canada to protect Canada. The only thing that we have in place are the Northern Radar stations which are in need of major upgrades.
As well because the American's have limited defense assets in place protecting their cities and key spots, they're well within their rights if they had an asset that could possibly protect a Canadian city to tell us that they can't afford to waste missile one on a non participating country
Maybe some clarification here. There's this misnomer that the BMD is this hardened shield that would be able to destroy missiles coming in no matter what the city.
The missile defense system is made up of linked radar systems to track the missiles coming in, then the use of interceptor missiles like the Thaad high altitude kinetic weapon, its effective range is 200km so basically they would have one parked by every major city and strategic site. The Thaad is designed to intercept missiles in the upper or outer atmosphere.
The next component is the Patriat Pac-3 - Its designed to knock down a missile in the atmosphere basically in its terminal phase. Its range is less then the Thaad.
The third component are Aegis equip naval vessels these are located off shore on destroyers and are designed to shoot down missiles in mid flight.
Someone in the Canadian Government if they made the assumption that the Americans would be able to shoot down a ballistic missile over Canada didn't understand how this system works, unless we get extremely lucky and the missile flys over a Aegis equipped ship or within 200 KM's of a American city there's no assets in place to protect us.
Look, this isn't star wars with laser equipped satellites with unlimited range, the BMD system is more like a series of bubbles over important American Cities and strategic sites interlinked with a radar system and a centralized command and control.
If a nuke headed to Ottawa, or Toronto, or Calgary or Edmonton or even Vancouver there's nothing there to intercept the missile, the American's can watch the flight of the missile and the terminal phase and the explosion, and send a sorry about your luck but you didn't want patriots or thaads or having a US naval vessel patrolling off of your shore.
How are these idiots surprised that this is the results? Didn't they read the briefing papers before they said no?