Cross platform you say? So…like…ARM? 🙂

The INF went away in 2019 and the Typhon system entered service in 2023 so…ground launched Tomahawks are back on the menu.

Trump’s 1st term.

Really? 'Cuz there’s two Audi execs in prison over this in the US right now.

Nor the one before that where the CDC itself argues that lead in kids was fine. That happened in Washington D.C. btw.

It would have lost nothing if it were trimmed to 7 books. It’s only 14 because no one smacked the author with a ruler.

WoT is not “Well paced”. It’s egregiously slow and long winded. Robert Jordan should have been beaten with a chair for the bullshit he put his readers through.

The tracking and fire control systems already exist. The show stopper right now in 2025 is the cost; mostly because the needed missiles are ungodly expensive and you need so many of them.

But what if the system no longer needs missiles?

About $300 is what the mechanics in the area usually charge.

That’s complete robbery. Go to a tire shop.

The most conservative estimate I’ve seen for the IDs intercept rate is 80% and many sources claim 90% or even 95%. I’m am not a fan of the Israeli Government but its beyond question that the ID system does an excellent job at countering the threat it was designed to handle.

$300? A TPS sensor replacement should cost like $75 including the sensor itself.

IIRC that’s eithera damaged fuel pump diaphragm or a sticking auto choke valve. Either way its like 10 minutes and less than 1$ to fix using a common Phillips screwdriver.

I know for a fact that parts of it can be built now. Everyone is in these comments trying to pretend that its still 1983 (the year Reagan announced SDI) while ignoring the fact that PATRIOT, NIKE, and THAAD have existed for two decades. Never mind that DE M-SHORAD, DRAGONFIRE and some others are already in production in various countries.

This ain’t 1983. Many things considered impossible 42 years ago are so routine in 2025 that we take them for granted.

The math and physics problems of SDI (Reagan’s Star Wars) hasn’t changed.

42 years of engineering evolution means we can build things now that were impossible back then. The US Army’s DE M-SHORAD and the British Dragonfire, two different High Energy Laser Systems that are already in production, are examples.

The US now has space based quantum sensing systems for God’s sake. That shit was literally unimaginable in 1983!

“Quantum Radar” would have been straight Science Fiction back then and yet at least the US and Australia have already built test systems for it.

The Scientists and Engineers of 1983, even the ones working on SDI, would likely have told you that the SmartPhone in your pocket right now was impossible and could never be built. The screen alone would have had them cumming in their pants and the camera system and processing power in the thing would have blown their minds.

SDI was a long time ago. May as well compare a 1983 Chevy to a 2025 LUCID EV.

The “Golden Dome” system is almost certainly more bullshit from Trump not because it’s infeasible but because we can’t afford to build it. At least not right now.

What Trump is pitching is the same snake oil Reaganite “Star Wars” program that was scrapped 30 years ago.

SDI never really ended and research on the core technologies continue to this day. Things like Patriot and NIKE came out of the program some 20 years ago and we’re now starting to get the energy weapon systems that Reagan envisioned.

The Israeli Iron Dome can’t beat Yemeni intercontinental bottle rockets, nevermind Iranian SCUD missiles.

Iron Dome does an amazingly good job at defending from the threats it was designed to handle. It wasn’t meant to deal with MRBM or ICBM threats.

These programs don’t meaningfully protect a country that is under bombardment.

Effective defense from MRBM and ICBM attack has been technically possible for nearly two decades however installing a GBMD system of that size would bankrupt the United States several times over. The missiles it uses are a hundred million a piece if IIRC and we’d need tens of thousands of them.

What’s changed is that Ground Based Directed Energy Weapons of sufficient power, a direct result of SDI, to interdict ICBMS will be available in the near future. The US Military is already fielding lower power systems like the DE M-SHORAD and everyone from Lockheed to Raytheon has 1MW (or higher) GBDEW systems starting testing this year.

Hell the British already have their Dragonfire system, rated at 300KW, not only built but scheduled to be put on Navy Vessels in 2027 and the US Navy has had a system like this for nearly a decade already.

The fantasy of missile defense only escalates these conflicts.

Missile defense isn’t a fantasy, the short range version has been around for a long while now. Medium and Long Range has been possible for two decades it’s just been wildly unaffordable at scale. That is about to change.

On my Android devices right below “New Tab” is an option for “Bookmarks”. I guess YMMV depending on what your mobile device is?

Always amazes me how few people seem to know about DACs. I use them extensively in racks. They’re inexpensive and easy to use.

Old meme is old. I’m in Central Wyoming with reasonably priced 2Gb/s FTTH and I could order 10Gb/s if I wanted it.

Uhhhh, mine does. Why doesn’t yours?

Yep, still true.