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Given the North Korean threat, missile defense upgrades are progressing at a crucial time for the Pentagon’s Ground-Based midcourse defense. Following the completion of  current Pentagon review of nuclear weapons, policy and defenses, there is a distinct possibility that funding for missile defense technology will continue to climb.

The Pentagon’s next intercept test will incorporate new missile defense technology engineered to improve the likelihood that a Ground-Based Interceptor can succeed in destroying an approaching ICBM nuclear weapons attack.

Northrop Grumman is working with the Missile Defense Agency to refine new command and control systems able to exchange time-sensitive information with an interceptor kill vehicle to improve its ability to guide toward an attacking enemy ICBM.

The technology, which involves the integration of new components into data terminals and communications networks, is designed to increase reliability of the Pentagon’s Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system and expedite the process through which sensors and data locate ICBM targets, Mark Thornton, Director of Missile Defense Systems Operating Unit, Northrop Grumman, told Scout Warrior in an interview

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Re: This is How the U.S. Military Plans to Strike Down a North Korean ICBM
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2017, 12:41:12 am »
There's only one way we're ever going to know if our missile interception system -really- works in practice.

And that's to actually shoot down a NORK ICBM.

Doing so will prove a lot to a lot of folks.

Are we going to do it?

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Re: This is How the U.S. Military Plans to Strike Down a North Korean ICBM
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2017, 12:48:59 am »
There's only one way we're ever going to know if our missile interception system -really- works in practice.

And that's to actually shoot down a NORK ICBM.

Doing so will prove a lot to a lot of folks.

Are we going to do it?

We will have to see.

"Of Arms and Man I Sing"-The Aenid written by Virgil-Virgil commenced his epic story of Aeneas and the founding of Rome with the words: Arma virumque cano--"Of arms and man I sing.Aeneas receives full treatment in Roman mythology, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid, where he is an ancestor of Romulus and Remus. He became the first true hero of Rome