On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 17:41:33 +0000, ess (phil
hunt) wrote:

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:12:47 GMT, Thomas J. Paladino Jr. wrote:

LOL.... now you're talking about *multiple* lauch & storage facilities,

Launch facility = a land rover and trailer

And how big is this missile? Unless it's very small, the land rover
is now restricted to the roads-- they don't pull heavy loads through
off road territory that easily, and any 150KM+ missile will be a
heavy load, plus the radio and data link equipment.



storage facility = any building will do

for
potentially 500-1000+ missiles, all cooridinated with each other to hit the
same small targets *simultaneously*?

co-ordination = radio

What radio? the U.S. will have every frequency jammed-- we
practically own the radio spectrum. Also, that sort of time on target
tactic takes a lot of training-- and most 3rd world countries don't
have it.
To put it this way, at no point during either GW I or II was the
Iraqi military, much larger, with many hardened facilities, able to
pull off this sort of coordination.

The infrastructure and technology for
that undertaking would be even more cost prohibitive, but just as futile.
Even if they were somehow built and tested (extraordinarily unlikely);
again, what would stop *all* of these facilities from being taken out in the
first 10 seconds of the war?

Knowing where they are?

Did the USA knock out all Iraqu tanks at the start of the 2003 or
1991 wars? No, it did not, unlike in your worthless comtemptable
idiot strawman scenario. Did the USA knock out all Serbian tanks in
the Kosovo war? they didn't in the whole war, let alone the first
ten minutes.

WE didn't have to-- but we did knock out the Iraqi Air defense
system, and for something like 60 days in 1991 got to play, "Smash the
army". The tanks couldn't hurt us. The scuds stayed hidden, but that
was because they were doing individual launches. The U.S. won't come
charging in like a blind bull-- it'll hit you from the air, slowly
degrading your command and control abilities. If you want to come to
us, fine-- you have to put the equipoment on the road. Remember the
Highway of Death? If we're invading you, its back to deciding do we
want to go fast, or spend a few weeks destroying your ability to
resist? After plowing all the money into this systems, you certainly
aren't going to have many tanks, infantry worthy of the name, or
airpower, so ALL the U.S. has to do is kill this one system.
Not an effective strategy. Not at all.