3 thoughts on “Kim Jong-Un Will Be Pleased”

  1. The long-term difficulties with this particular iinterceptor should really be no surprise. A major requirement in its original design concept, under the Clinton Administration, was that it not be good enough to intercept Russian warheads. This was supposedly to keep the “Great Russia” faction from growing stronger in Russia, through criticizing the inability of Russia’s only remaining global force projection capability, its ICBMs, to threaten the US credibly. Of course, that worked so well that Putin has regularly played to the Great Russia partisans as a staple of his foreign policy. The design could have had multi-inteceptor warheads added by now, but those were cancelled by the Obama Administration as part of their “reset” campaign that has produced, …Well, …this last week’s wonderful support by Putin for, …well, …

    Until we start with a clean sheet conception of a multi-layer BMD, including a GPALS-style spaced-based brilliant pebbles interceptor layer, and long-range mid-course missile of uncompromisng concept for competence, and shorter-range advances on both AEGIS-style Standard systems and PAC-3 terminal layer systems, we will continue to see these failures.

  2. That was an interesting read. I did not know the Norks were developing a road mobile ICBM. It seems they have only shown a dummy of that so far. The Taepodong 2 is mostly useless as an ICBM though.

    I guess the US will have to keep relying on the Aegis cruisers for defense for the foreseeable future. But this is mostly for Pacific theater defense. The Nork missiles have too small of a range or are too cumbersome to fire to be relevant. China is a much bigger threat in the region.

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