is that it would cost several billion dollars each time. Not only that, but you'd end up shooting all of your missiles every 6 months, leaving yourself wide open. The missile manufacturers would love it because, instead of building 20 missiles or so, they'd be building hundreds. In the end, it still wouldn't exhaustively test every possible combination of threats, flight profiles, etc.
That's not how testing is done anywhere for anything, so why set up such biased criteria for this one system? After all, to properly test an operating system like Windows, you'd need to test every possible combination of hardware and software that any user might have or might have in the future. That would be millions of combinations, take years, and cost billions, but what's that compared to "proper testing" as you define it?
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No, the reason why such tests will never be conducted...
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- DoD taken over by lawyers
- figgered it out: "nascent operational capability" is what you use to counter "weapons of mass destruction-related program activities" (n/t)
- My personal opinion is that the Anti Ballistic Missile Defense Program is doomed to failure.
- I think you are too pessimistic.
- No, the reason why such tests will never be conducted...
- I like Ann Coulters silly rhetoric better...
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