missiles

The US has developed a lot of missiles, including those used to shoot down other missiles.

The US is committed to fleet carriers and expensive aircraft, while the Chinese focus on island bases and balistic missiles.

High off boresight missiles mean that pilots can engage targets from a wide variety of angles.

Means it has to take off, detect the target, destroy with missiles/guns, and return.

Any low-flying, slow ground-attack aircraft that is designed to strafe is going to be vulnerable to shoulder-mounted missiles.

In theory, China could build islands across the pacific and setup bases and missiles along the US west coast.

Or, if the case of total war, you blow the freaking satellites out of space with missiles.

There are point installations protecting military targets, on military land, but there aren't batteries of missiles to defend large cities.

An autonomous ballistic missile defense system would have a lot less impact than an AI that had control of a few missiles.

It was decided that using missiles and bombs was more relevant and important.

The Soviets had their Galosh missiles defending Moscow, which are still in place.

By the 60s, the Russians were concentrating on ballistic missiles, and not much more work was put into air defense in the U.

Do you mean: a smaller group of F-15s was adequate to defend the US if by "defend the US" we mean completely ignoring the missiles?

He knows that it's not 'over.' See later on: > But more importantly, a few hundred of the successors to the > Titans, the "Minuteman III" missiles, remain active in silos > throughout the northern US, run by crews and following procedures > essentially similar to those here.