MEADS and beyond?
 

Just have read the current status about the planned successor of the Patriot system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_...Defense_System

It's seems MEADS gets abandoned...I'm confused now...I've thought it would also act as a (local) defense system against ballistic, supporting the SM-3 system?

Anybody knows about follow-up plans?

The way things are looking in the UK we may be reverting back to Bloodhound or the slingshot even :doh:

Not that we were involved in Meads apparently....probably hoping to get a cut price deal after it had been developed and successfully tested.

No doubt the Tories would cut these as well :dead:

Doubt they'd ever do away with the slingshot...the working classes could be utilised to manhandle the boulders into position or have the NMW dissolved :03:

One can compromise

http://img3.allvoices.com/thumbs/eve...dafi-rebel.jpg

how do you track ballistic missilies with that approach :DL

What missiles????????????:hmmm:




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Tracking ballistic missiles is easy, taking them down is another story all together.

Then again I read once that a 40mm Bofors destroyed a dumb bomb falling towards a ship in WWII. I guess if you throw up sufficient lead in to the air you are likely to shoot something down.

What happened to the old days when we planned to just fry all the incoming ICBMs with a couple nuclear bomb produced EMPs? Damn with our current computer technologies we should really look back in to Project Excalibur. :damn: