anti-missile defense system cloaked in fraud?

Does this mean the Star Wars system may not be based on good science?!?! Oh, no! I feel so, so...vulnerable somehow...

Hooey! I was going to put this in. This is a chronologically detailed report I should think would be hard to dispute. I remember reading that during the Desert Storm operation, they discovered that the program was not hitting the scuds at all, so the Israelis developed a deterrent system called the Arrow. Which worked.

Will we be putting billions into this, as promised by this administration, to protect us all from those evil missiles from the sky?

all i can say is "DUCK"

I take it that's a yes? Where should I duck? I live in one of the most populated states in the 50 (which I've been trying to move out of for years).

TEXAS

MORE TEXAS

TEXAS=miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles

And defense bucks, hmmm.

Oh, totally. It's been a bunch of hooey, is a bunch of hooey, and will be a bunch of hooey. Hooey hooey hooey. (I think there must be a dance that goes with this...)

Soz where is Rosie?

Aw heck did she skedaddle AGAIN? This seems to happen fairly often -- I can see her, others can't. I'll try to fix it -- can you left me know in a few minutes (here or via PM) if it worked? Thanks.

OK will do.

Will someone give them the coordinates for Crawford TX. Very little to lose in that area.

Star wars should be renamed pie in the sky flaws.

Six (count me out) ABM (anti-ballistic missile) experts on this thread should be able to discover coordinates - never mind, will post them:
N 31 32, W 97 26
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Meant hooray - not hooey.

Joanne - I have never in my life been to Texas. Nor to Florida. I have, however, been to Istanbul, which I understand could be a target for scud missiles that work.

Even armed with the coordinates, I wouldn't know what to do next.

mamajuana

Point and shoot

Apparently there is a working system.
Arrow Missile System - Umbrella of Protection




(DFJ-Nov/Dec '01) Whether launched from land or from the air, missiles aimed at Israel will be met with a vastly different welcome than during the Gulf War. The scrambling for a line of defense against Iraq's Scud attacks is a thing of the past. Israel has found and tested a new anti-missile system that will provide a sense of security for Israel's population.

The Israel Arrow missile defense system continues to prove itself an effective defense against incoming missile attacks. Combined with the Green Pine all-weather radar targeting system for attack fighters, the Arrow forms an umbrella of protection from enemy missiles, particularly the Scud B's and C's used by Syria.

In an August 2001 live testing, the Arrow-2 interceptor successfully shot down a live missile which was dropped from an IAF F-15 fighter jet at high altitude and assumed the flight path of an incoming Scud missile.

Recently the Arrow-2 successfully detected a test launch of a longer-range Scud D by Syria, providing an enhanced safety mechanism for Israel's citizens.

The Arrow-2 is the only operational anti-missile missile system in the world and its components are expected to be used in the planning of the US national missile-defense system.

N. B.: came back and edited a note made by me in this space in the interest of general good humor <G>

It may fool some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time. As the saying goes..... c.i.

HELEN OF TROY! All this time and I just now noticed the tag line. Welcome, welcome, welcome

akaRoger