[extropy-chat] Aegis 3rd generation missile: BMD system

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:

> A few success out of how many failures (and using targets making 
> success more probable than real life)  and they speak of how
> "awesome" 
> the system is and of wide deployment?  Seems a bit premature.

How many failures have there been with this system? None that I've
heard of. All the failures have been with the ground based system the
Air Force and Army have been working on. The Aegis system is a
ship-based system that hasn't had many, if any, failures, probably
because it is an evolutionary development of the Aegis system, not a
whole new one.

Of course, critics will be calling the system 'premature' right up
until the system is used in battle. Then they'll gripe that it wasn't
100% effective (as if any combat weapon ever is) and demand
investigations, fines, and resignations. Then as effectiveness rises,
they'll complain it costs too much, and that the manufacturers are
gouging, until it becomes as perfected as possible at which point they
will call it obsolete.

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


	
		
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