Talk:Missile defense

Spelling

There seems to be some inconsistencies in regards to the way 'defense' is spelled, either being spelled the American way "Defense" or the original way "Defence". Perhaps someone could choose one, and stick to that particular choice.

U.S. missiels in Europe

Maybe some mention of this new fiasco with the U.S. putting more missiles into Europe?

-G

Discuss changes

I made multiple changes to improve completeness and accuracy. Any issues or questions, please discuss here. Joema 15:20, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Missile Defense & Anti-ballistic missile merge

These two topics sseem to overlap significantly as the missile defense article generally describes the history of ICBM intercepts. Certainly, there is the possibility of expanding missile defense to include the airborne laser and sea-launched midcourse, but current emphasis on ICBM suggest significant merging.

I disagree with the idea of merging entirely and at the same time think this article is misdirected. The term missile defence is much broader then what is implied here. On the base level of it, medieval armour could be considered 'missile defence' and using the definition of a self propelled missile you could still include it if you remember that the Chinese have used military rockets for 700 years. By WW2 Britain was attempting AND shooting down incoming rockets before they reached their intended targets. In the 1970's Russia began experimentation with shooting down man portable missiles and deployed successful systems in the Afghanistan war.--Senor Freebie (talk) 00:35, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Lasers

"However non-missile defenses such as lasers will be operational within about two years." - This needs a source and a date. It's intriguing if it's true. 151.203.178.253 00:54, 13 July 2006 (UTC)John S.

Initially the Boeing YAL-1 was planned to be operational by around 2008, but it has recently been delayed due to development difficulties. Revised wording to reflect this. Joema 14:33, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

History

Paragraph 2 introduces the concept "Hit-a-bullet-with-a-bullet" for the first time. This concept is fist explained in para 3 as "Hit-to-kill". Would make sence to bring the para 3 info forward to para 2 and given the significance of the phrase "hit-to-kill" maybe give it its own page. "Hit-to-kill" is not necessarily self describing. When I first read it I presumed the concept was one of a ratio number of hits to number of lethal hits. MalFarrelle 13:34, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Balloon Decoys

"endoatmospheric intercept means balloon-type decoys won't work." - Why? MalFarrelle 13:28, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Criticism of the concept itself

I think it should certainly be mentioned that large parts of the informed scientists and publics disaree with the very idea of missile defense. After all, with the thousands of deployed warheads of both the US and russia, any attempt at defense would be futile, and also smaller states could easily get through such a defense system. You need at least 2, if not 4, interceptors for each incoming missiles, the balloon thing and various other systems make it highly unlikely that such an interception would be successful, not to speak of virtually unhaltable MIRV-systems...the stratospheric costs of such projects, the focus on defense rather than the officially stated goal of disarmament, the irritation of Russia (which, in light of the futility of the defensive potential rather suspects an intended upgrade of offensive capabilities) and the damage done to the deterrence concept of Mutually Assured destruction (MAD) are considerable cons. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lhoaxt (talk • contribs) 13:38, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Non-ballistic missiles

Should there be some mention of defenses against missiles other than ballistic missiles (example: close-in weapon systems aboard ships for defense against anti-ship missiles)? --Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty | Averted crashes} 18:01, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Russian Navy

Where the fnord does this go?

http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/news/2011/space-110922-rianovosti02.htm

The fiction section? Hcobb (talk) 02:53, 23 September 2011 (UTC)