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Originally Posted by Delgard
I do wonder if a decision has been made to shoot down missiles that overfly Japan, though. That will up the gambit.
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Risky, since by the time they're going over Japan they're some 600-700km high, which is higher than anything ever intercepted by AEGIS before.
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Originally Posted by ikalugin
I think the primary reason is path dependence, back in 60s when US made the decision to go all solid fuelled it did so because they perceived solid fuelled missiles as being more reliable/easy to maintain.
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That's a fair point, the infrastructure is all in place for liquid fueled missiles in Russia so I guess if they haven't broken it.
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Bulava is a solid fuel missile (made by the company that never desighned SLBMs btw), unless you count the bus.
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Yeah, I meant the bus.
