July 13, 2006


Reagan: The Visionary

Filed under: Military, Republicans
By Steve Dillard (Email) @ 6:10 pm

Yeah, baby.


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4 Rebel Yells to “Reagan: The Visionary”

  1. Not Impressed Says:
    July 14th, 2006 at 2:29 am

    Great — four billion dollars later and we can shoot down missles with the same capabilites as a SCUD, which we have been able to do since at least the first Gulf War. Now if we can just convince North Korea to use scaled-back missle technology if they try to nuke us and we’re set.

  2. Rick DeMent Says:
    July 14th, 2006 at 8:59 am

    Cool now the enemy has to fire two missles in oder to hit the mark, great!

  3. Max Lybbert Says:
    July 14th, 2006 at 12:35 pm

    It would have been nice if Clinton had kept funding anti-missile technology, or if the unimpressed hadn’t been the very ones complaining when Bush decided to pull out of a treaty with Russia to protect the US from threats coming out of Iran and North Korea.

    Summary: “Don’t pull out, that research Should Not Be Done; oh, big whoop, you didn’t get anywhere now that you’re finally able to do the research.”

  4. tomeck Says:
    July 14th, 2006 at 12:58 pm

    I’m not sure what you think Reagan has to do with this (Star Wars?), but at any rate all this proves is that we have a capability we already had.

    THAAD is expected to complement the PAC-3 (Patriot) interceptor in providing terminal-phase defense against short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles. In other words, it might take out Scuds and maybe even Taepodongs, but don’t expect to knock down ICBMs… Today’s test included just one non-maneuvering target with no decoys and no debris. So this was about as easy as a test can get. Now the $10-billion THAAD moves to a missile range off of Hawaii for several more test flights at longer and shorter ranges. Hopefully some of these tests will be more realistic.

    From http://defensetech.org/

    So congrats to the team that’s working on it, but Reagan’s vision is still somewhere out over the horizon.

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