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Originally Posted by Oberon
It's certainly a vital component at a time like this, with more and more states obtaining advanced missile technology. Eventually, I would have thought though, that there will come a time when the technology will be deployed from a defensive role to an offensive role. Given enough power, this laser could surely severely damage armour and ground personnel, a cleaner, more precision equivilent of a nuclear strike.
A network of deflection satellites in orbit...perhaps...could mean that you could fire a stationary laser from the US and strike somewhere in China...coupling this with Spysats for precision, real-time strikes.
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You also remember that there is a second system to kill these missiles in the boost phase - there is a modified Ticonderoga sporting a modified SM block 2 that is designed to shoot these things down. Matter of fact, one of these ships is off the N. Korean coast right now.
We also have THAAD (A modified PAC-3 Patriot) in Alaska and Florida and it has been scoring successful hits on re-entry vehicles lately.
This tripple threat makes any state that attacks the US to not have 100% chance of hitting it, where in the past, it was a guarantted 100% chance they would nuke something had their missile worked. Now the thought of the US stopping the attack and retalliating at the same time makes a ballistic missile attack not a very desirable thing!!! This is what we want!