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Reagan's Failed Attempt to Put Lasers in Space
Angry Planet
The Future of Missile Defense
We're sitting here in the year 2023, and ICBMs are still this big part of the nuclear triad. It turns out that it's incredibly hard to shoot one of these out of the air. After decades of effort and bidding the dollars, we have perfected some very good short range systems like the Patriot. But when you go to long ranges, I see BMS intercontinental ballistic missiles that travel thousands of miles. These things are coming in at, you know, Mach seven mock five to five seven. They start traveling somewhere between five or seven times the speed of sound.
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