Missile Defense Re: US Isolationism RE: US at war in 1940?1942? L3

[John D. Giorgis]

At 08:25 AM 6/14/01 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
>I have no objection to tests.  I think that the system that is being tested
>now is virtually worthless: the counter measures phenomenally cheap and easy
>compared to the real measures.  What we have now is a system that is
>supposed to hit targets in space.  The obvious counter measure is to deploy
>a number of balloons in space, all identical looking, one having the warhead
>in it.  We haven't begun to develop a system that can overcome such an easy
>counter measure.

Its at least worth mentioning that in the most recent failed test, among
the many failures, was a failure of the decoys to deploy properly.  

JDG
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