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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
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Originally Posted by CCIP
I think Putin nailed it on the head there. Don't go telling me Azerbaidjan isn't better-positioned than the Czech Republic against these threats!
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The reason Azerbaidjan is better "Positioning" is because there already a ABM Radar there.
...wait why is there already a ABM Radar in Azerbaidjan? Oh thats right its part of Russia's ABM system from the 80's!  The one we let Russia built to defend Moscow on the grounds that we could build one to defend NORAD. Which we never did... 
IMHO we should slap a big Phased Array Radar on an old CVN (I think Enterprise will be retired soon.) Send one out in the Indian Ocean, another to the SOJ, and another to the Med and put all our ABM missiles on old SSBNs. The Ocean if free to all so no basing deals with other countries. Isn't that such a Republican thing to do? Don't make deals with other Countries do what you want! So why isn't this being done? Oh right Bush Jr. was an Air Force Puke...  (No offense to all the fine upstanding former AFPs here on Subsim.) |
Former SSBN's? Pretty poor launch platform, esepcially considering SM-3 is already there and paid for. Converted carriers into big radar ships? Right...
Oh, and I would hardly give GWB the honor of being called an Air Force Puke, but that's for a different thread.
PD