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Old December 21st 03, 07:47 AM
Bernardz
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"Derek Lyons" wrote in message
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Bernardz wrote:
Say I built heaps of multiple-rocket launchers built an improved WW2,

V1
jet to hit a city say at 200 miles and then targeted them at an US

ally
cities.

Aiming would be pretty trivial, most modern cities are pretty big

anyway
and so what if a a lot miss? Its not like they cost me much anyway

each
missile.


Aiming them is trivial. Producing them, storing them until needed,
deploying them when needed, and launching them in a coordinated
fashion *isn't*. (And all the steps in the process are vulnerable to
disruption.)


Besides that, once the dirty deed has been done, the country that
launched them is in really deep s***. Even if they had a bunch of US
military weapons that they had managed to buy from the black market,
they would do about the same thing as a rock flung at a hornet's nest --
except that the rock flinger wouldn't be able to run away.

In the very worst case, the US might have to resort to expending a half
dozen or so ICBMs. Realistically, however, I can't see anything more
drastic than a few B-52 air raids upon all suspected military posts.


This a common problem with deterrence.

I would suggest that they make a demonstration rather then do the deed.





Ray Drouillard





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The rich and the poor want the same thing, money.

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