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In response to "I'm less worried about them being able to destroy incoming missles than I am with their ability to destroy satellites. " by TWuG

If they build missiles like they build cars, we'll be fine. -- nm

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Jan 12 '10, 10:01

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Not true...look at the Soviets. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 12, 10:08 4
- damn you and your counter examples. still, the Soviets were quite different. -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 10:13 3
  - just saying that certain countries can build a decent consumer product but can sure field a fine atuomatic weapon, - Mel Profit Jan 12, 10:16 2
    - true true. and I'm saying China is not one of those countries. :) -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 10:17
    - can't -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 12, 10:17
Hardly. Exploding cars may be a design flaw, but exploding missiles is Mission Accomplished. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 10:02 12
- it's not your own missiles that are supposed to explode. -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 10:03 11
  - Of course they are. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 12, 10:05
  - I'm quite sure that they *are* -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 10:04 5
    - the goal, see, is to destroy the incoming missile. that's what missile intercept means. -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 10:05 4
      - and to do that, most existing systems detonate before impacting the target missile -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 10:06 3
        
        Give her a break. It's not like she worked at the Pentagon or anything. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 12, 10:11 2
        
        She has a point though. The missile that's going up doing the intercepting should come back down after it killed the other one and park in the army - Loyola Jan 12, 10:13
        
        indeed I never did. -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 10:13
  - They were supposed to explode. -- nm - Loyola Jan 12, 10:04 3
    - forget it. -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 10:05 2
      - I know what you're trying to say, I'm just trying to say ... all the design flaws in chinese cars are gold-star performance for chinese rockets. :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 10:06
      - Good thinking. -- nm - Loyola Jan 12, 10:05

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