protect the U.S. by shooting the missiles down or something?
2006-06-16 13:36:19 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
The latest missile to be tested is an ICBM with a range of 1800 kilometers, i doubt whether we can knock down an incoming ICBM.
If North Korea should manage to obtain fissile material either from its own reactors or from abroad, so as to make a nuclear weapon that could be carried to intercontinental range by an ICBM,it would initially have what is probably an unreliable warhead on an unreliable missile, thus their need to conduct tests.
It is entirely possible (especially with North Korea's launch of ICBMs) to destroy the weapons by intercept in boost phase-- while the first, second, or third stage of the ICBM is still burning.
But the interceptor would have to be
launched from a site sufficiently close and have sufficiently high performance in order to reach the missile while it was still burning.
If N. Korea launches from an undetected merchant ship, then all bets are off, head for the hills.
2006-06-16 13:52:20 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
And North Korea doesn't have ICBMs.
2006-06-16 13:40:21 · answer #2 · answered by paulie_biggs 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The US doesn't have a Missle defense system.
2006-06-16 13:38:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you will vaporise. All you can do is shoot back and vaporise some of them.
The trouble with that is that the North Korean peasants didn't do it
2006-06-16 13:42:17 · answer #4 · answered by Ferret 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
better hope the 2nd answer is right. But that would really verify that Armageddon therory right?
2006-06-16 13:43:54 · answer #5 · answered by changRdie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋