No missile shield in Poland?

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High Seas wrote:

Before you post nonsense on decoys again, though, consider that each incoming warhead can contain thousands of decoys;

Nope. A couple dozen at most....

....Protecting Europe from Iranian missiles is hardly a boondoggle.....
You do realize that we are still putting ABM systems in Poland -- just not ones with enough range to protect Paris and London??

oralloy wrote:

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High Seas wrote:

Before you post nonsense on decoys again, though, consider that each incoming warhead can contain thousands of decoys;

Nope. A couple dozen at most....

Source, please?

A simple nuclear weapon would weigh perhaps
1000 kilograms, and it is reasonable to assume that the
attacker could use about 10 percent of the payload, or
roughly 100 kilograms, for countermeasures. Thus, if
the attacker is satisfied with a relatively small number
of decoys (15 or less) per missile, then a weight of
6 kilograms per decoy is acceptable, and the heavy balloon
decoys could be used. However, if the attacker
prefers to use a larger number per missile, then lighter
decoys would be needed. It is reasonable to expect that
an attacker could deploy as many as 100 of the lightweight
(0.5 kilogram) balloon decoys we describe above
on a missile along with a nuclear warhead. An emerging
missile state with tens of missiles might not have
enough nuclear warheads to arm each missile, in which
case it could have several missiles whose entire payloads
were devoted to balloons of various weights. (The
attacker would probably not want to use the entire payload
to deploy light balloons because the defense might
well conclude that the missile could not carry hundreds
of decoys and a warhead. Instead, the attacker would
likely choose to deploy perhaps 25 to 50 heavy balloon
decoys.)

Oralloy - you're the first poster on this site ever (to my knowledge) to claim infallibility. Where, pray, do you get your information? If it dawns on you via divine intervention, please don't bother answering that part, but at least tell me, if Sec. Gates is clueless and Prof. Postol senile, whom do you trust in this field?!

oralloy wrote:

....Protecting Europe from Iranian missiles is hardly a boondoggle.....
You do realize that we are still putting ABM systems in Poland -- just not ones with enough range to protect Paris and London??

LOL, just keep it confidential, the Russians might hear about it <G>