SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Pentagon shoots down mock intercontinental missile in sea-based test
In a first for the Pentagon's push to develop defenses against intercontinental-range ballistic missiles capable of striking the United States, a missile interceptor launched from a U.S. Navy ship at sea hit and destroyed a mock ICBM in flight Tuesday, officials said.
Previous tests against ICBM targets had used interceptors launched from underground silos in the U.S. If further, more challenging tests prove successful, the ship-based approach could add to the credibility and reliability of the Pentagon's existing missile-defense system.
The success of Tuesday's test is likely to draw particular interest from North Korea, whose development of ICBMs and nuclear weapons is the main reason the Pentagon has sought to accelerate its building of missile-defense systems over the past decade.
Also at Bloomberg and DefenseNews.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @08:53PM (6 children)
Pretty soon the only viable option will be to nuke things from orbit.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Freeman on Tuesday November 17 2020, @10:22PM (3 children)
There's a reason why there are no Nuclear Weapons allowed in space. Given a big enough budget, some place like the USA could create a weapon that the opposing side couldn't respond to. Which would be the end of MAD and could lead to WWIII. In the event that the other side saw that happening and knew you didn't have the capability, yet. Even being able to send a giant asteroid at a specific target at a high enough velocity could go undetected, until it was too late. Hopefully there will be safeguards in place, before humanity has the ability to crack the planet in half. Even being a Christian and knowing God wouldn't let something like that happen, before the end. Doesn't mean I would want that kind of destruction to be at our disposal. Satan still has time to wreak havok, before God says enough is enough.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @10:29PM
God is a gamma ray burst.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @03:16AM (1 child)
WW3 is coming, or "great power conflict" as the MIC puts it.
The Christian god Yahweh, whose name can also be written as 666--a human number, war-aspected without love or liberty aspects--does not prevent genocide. He encourages it.
Yahweh does not prevent war. He encourages it.
Yahweh does not even prevent disease. He encourages it by promulgating lies about masks, laughing like Kefka every time one of his cultists dies from COVID.
Yahweh did not prevent First and Second Impact, and now we see the opening rituals of Third Impact. Why would Yahweh prevent it?
(Score: 4, Touché) by MostCynical on Wednesday November 18 2020, @07:13AM
for posts like this, we need a "+0 WTF" mod
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @02:05PM (1 child)
no need for that, subs are still better for quick nuke delivery.
Also, this is only useful for someone that have few ICBM, Russia would swarm USA anyway (thanks for the Reagan starwar program, USA already trained URSS/Russia that the best way to avoid having the ICBM neutralized is to swarm and over-saturate any protection system
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @02:10PM
Also, Russia have now ultrasonic missil (almost impossible to stop, probably only laser could do it), more to anti-ship missil, but could be adapt to take nukes too... but of course, a much shorter range than ICBM :)