MEADS and beyond?

Hawk66 · 06-11-11, 06:08 AM

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?

Jimbuna · 06-11-11, 06:29 AM

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

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

BossMark · 06-11-11, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

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

No doubt the Tories would cut these as well

Jimbuna · 06-11-11, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by BossMark

No doubt the Tories would cut these as well

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

MH · 06-11-11, 07:22 AM

One can compromise

Hawk66 · 06-11-11, 07:41 AM

how do you track ballistic missilies with that approach

MH · 06-11-11, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Hawk66

how do you track ballistic missilies with that approach

What missiles????????????

TLAM Strike · 06-11-11, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Hawk66

how do you track ballistic missilies with that approach

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.

06-11-11, 06:08 AM	#1
Hawk66 Commodore Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 609 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	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?

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,451 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	The way things are looking in the UK we may be reverting back to Bloodhound or the slingshot even Not that we were involved in Meads apparently....probably hoping to get a cut price deal after it had been developed and successfully tested. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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Hawk66 Commodore Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 609 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	how do you track ballistic missilies with that approach