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  • The Golden Dome of DJT

    From Chris Ahlstrom@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 23 13:35:38 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc, rec.aviation.military

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lasers-space-radars-missile-interceptors-defense-leaders-lay-out-vision-trumps-golden-dome-project

    Forty years after President Ronald Reagan first conceived the idea, defense
    industry leaders say the technology is finally advanced enough to build an
    invisible protective dome of space-based radars, missile interceptors and
    laser weapons over the United States.

    President Donald Trump, infatuated by the Iron Dome missile defense system
    over Israel, first ordered the Defense Department to begin drawing up plans
    for a U.S. version, the "Golden Dome," in January.

    But Israel is roughly the size of New Jersey, so a dome of protection could
    prove far more daunting for the much larger land mass of the U.S. And the
    threats to Israel usually come from its neighbors, who use short-range
    weapons. America's foes — North Korea, Iran, Russia and China — are half a
    world away and armed with intercontinental ballistics missiles (ICBMs) and
    hypersonics, all factors that make the project more challenging for a
    nation on the size and scale of the U.S.

    So questions remain. Will the Golden Dome encompass the entire country,
    including Hawaii, Alaska and U.S. military bases in locations like Guam?
    Would it be able to protect against short-range missiles, long-range
    missiles, unmanned and manned aircraft?

    TRUMP'S 'GOLDEN DOME' WILL NEED MANHATTAN PROJECT-SCALE WHOLE-OF-GOVERNMENT
    EFFORT, SPACE FORCE GENERAL WARNS

    Yeah, Reagan's Star Wars worked out real well.

    How we gonna fund this with that gigantic tax break for billionaires?

    --
    When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
    -- Hunter S. Thompson

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  • From c186282@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 24 01:37:19 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc, rec.aviation.military

    A complete "IronDome" for the USA is not practical ... just
    too much land-mass.

    However for 'critical locations', some of the bigger cities
    and military assets, it CAN be done and, now, likely SHOULD.

    In short, Vlad/Xi/Kim/Ayatollahs should NOT think they'll
    get away with it.

    Oh, as per Reagans "Star Wars', exaggerating the PRETENSE
    of an all-encompassing shield CAN be useful ......

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  • From c186282@21:1/5 to Jim Wilkins on Tue Mar 25 01:58:39 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc, rec.aviation.military

    On 3/24/25 6:54 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
    "c186282"  wrote in message news:9HKdnf-LKYQOcn36nZ2dnZfqn_udnZ2d@giganews.com...

    A complete "IronDome" for the USA is not practical ... just
    too much land-mass.

    However for 'critical locations', some of the bigger cities
    and military assets, it CAN be done and, now, likely SHOULD.

    In short, Vlad/Xi/Kim/Ayatollahs should NOT think they'll
    get away with it.

    Oh, as per Reagans "Star Wars', exaggerating the PRETENSE
    of an all-encompassing shield CAN be useful ......

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    Iron Dome doesn't protect the entire country, it tracks incoming
    ballistic missiles, predicts their impact point, and doesn't waste interceptors on inaccurate ones that will miss valuable targets.

    Pretense and deception have been part of military tactics since at least
    the earliest written records. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1771.Sun_Tzu
    “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack,
    we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive;
    when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when
    far away, we must make him believe we are near.”

    The Hidden Markov Model I mentioned is a response to the above
    translated into computer language so AI can help.

    I watched IronDome in action against Iran/Hez attacks.
    It was really good - but I think I see some cracks in
    how it works, cheap ways to cheat it.

    If I can, so can Israel's enemies.

    So can US enemies.

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  • From c186282@21:1/5 to Governor Swill on Tue Mar 25 02:02:07 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc, rec.aviation.military

    On 3/24/25 11:12 PM, Governor Swill wrote:
    On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:35:38 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom
    <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:

    So questions remain. Will the Golden Dome encompass the entire country, >> including Hawaii, Alaska and U.S. military bases in locations like Guam?.

    Perhaps, as the system builds.

    Would it be able to protect against short-range missiles, long-range
    missiles, unmanned and manned aircraft?

    And eventually particle beam weapons.

    Ummmmm ... skip the Star Trek.

    Particle-beams sure look great in sci-fi, but
    every practical use is fraught with problems
    that may never be overcome.

    Lasers have their own suckiness factor.

    So, for at least the next 25 years, it's gonna
    be PHYSICAL interceptors.

    "AI" can smarten those up considerably.

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