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Originally Posted by bradclark1
Thats how things are done nowadays for multi-billion dollar systems. You put the contract out for a system you want, choose one that's close to what you want then pump money into it till it works.
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Maybe it will, maybe not. but it will never be a protection against states that can afford to build as many ICBMs needed to simply overflood such a system, and i think this will be an easy task for the next many decades. Whereas a terror group will not spend money on developing ICBMs, but to transport a nuclear bomb into the target country via smuggle or ordinary goods transport (if it wants to strike by using a nuke device, of course - I could imagine alternative not less horrific scenarios). Seen that way that pörogram sounds like a dollar-grave to me, but it is profitable for the US defense industry - and probably that is where the real focus of interest is. Such a defense makes sense only towards rogue states that only have an extremely limited stock of missiles. But where there has a state one missile, it usually has many more.