Daily reminder (for no particular reason) that MIT Physicist Theodore Postol was right about intercepting ballistic missiles with AD interceptors being a fool's errand.

Much more difficult when its hypersonics + drone waves at the same time. The question is when they'll exhaust their supplies. This looks like a lose/lose war. Hope they see reason and de-escalate soon.

>>16701112 (OP)
It's pretty cool that we tried it anyways though

>>16702637
Frankly all of the engineering tests for these systems were under highly optimistic conditions and as such they weren't meaningfully approximating real life.

>>16702575
Really even non-hypersonic ballistic missiles are hard to hit with interceptors

>>16701112 (OP)
they hated him because he was telling them the truth

it shouldn’t take someone from MIT to point this out should it?

>>16703785
>it shouldn’t
It's not strictly necessary, but he was the one that actually decided to call out Raytheon and Bush Sr.

>>16701112 (OP)
how do we intercept ballistic missiles then?

>>16703867
The short answer is that there really isn't anything that's going to achieve a high interception rate, unless you're going to risk it with using ABMs with nuclear warheads like the soviets did in the late 80s.

it was always posturing to get the big dumb american golem to do their bidding for them

>>16703867
the iron beam system seems promising
>>16702681
iron dome have 90% success rate with smaller missiles which is it's main target anyway

>>16704949
>iron dome have 90% success rate
This is horseshit, epically since this is what the IDF started claiming after they started to implement a Ukraine style censorship regime regarding airstrikes.

>>16704952
source?

>>16704953

>>16704954
>arresting traitor le bad
they would have been stoned to death if they are in dune coon's land
>posting screenshot instead of link
smartest terrorist award

So can I get a probability estimate of our greatest ally getting glassed?

>>16704961
They were still getting bombed this morning