Could the U.S. reliably intercept Nork ICBMs?

If one nork missile touches the US, they will get their shit pushed in in ways that they could never imagine.

>>34745593
Nuclear deterence is wonky.

Everyone likes to pretend we practice mutually assured destruction but if anyone ever actually launched nukes there'd be no real destruction because countermeasure technology has come along to nip that kind of thing in the bud. That is, detonate the missiles over ocean bodies. So all nuclear nations act like it's still a thing that we'll blow ourselves up over that kind of thing, only to find it ineffectual and we'll settle down and go back to proxy wars.

We'll likely never get to that point though unless some whackasses who don't understand this actually do it in a fit of fanatical fervor.

>>34745593
>>Could the U.S. intercept a missile fired at Los Angeles?
Yes. Its possible.
>>What about a swarm of missiles?
Probably not all of them if the swarm had enough.
>>How many could the U.S. intercept?
Hard to say. Depends on exact trajectory, make up of the threat cloud, things like that.
Probably less than 10. Likely 5 or fewer.

>>What does the U.S. have at its disposal for the task?
GBI is really the only game in town to stop ICBMs. THAAD cant really hit ICBM RVs.

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when will you realize nukes are not real and japan was firebombed not nuked. the "city" was made of wood buildings and the only ones left standing were concrete. the rest is agreed upon propaganda for mutual benefit.

>>34745636
What the fuck is wrong with you?

>>34745593
Yes

>>34746360
>THAAD cant really hit ICBM RVs.

Then what's the point? Aircraft? Scuds?Everyone hypes the THAAD up to be a nuke-killer.

>>34745614
i.e South Korea becoming an *actual* island (it practically already is)

>>34751240
It can intercept smaller ballistic missiles and (like SCUDs) fundamentally changes the math on how a strike on US/UN and allied facilities would go.

>>34745593
considering that they don't have that many and probably half of them will fail given their launch history, yes.

>>34751240
Theater defense you mongoloid

>>34745593
Los Angeles native here

Hopefully if someone fired a nuke at LA all the countermeasures would fail and this wretched give of scum and villainy would be wiped from the coast of our great country

>>34747343
>>he's just gonna deny all the footage of the Castle, crossroads, white sands, etc tests as fakes.

Bet you think the moon landing happened on a sound stage as well.