Re: Lift off on fusion rockets

Bertil Jonell [email removed] writes:
> Scott Kellogg writes:
> > We DO have an extensive anti-aircraft network,
> > but not many people ever really see NORAD.
> Isn't NORAD primarily a detection network?

That's the part that most people see.  NORAD can call up all sorts of
defenses, though.  The US has an extensive SAM system, as well as
interceptor aircraft.  At different times, it has also had an
Anti-Satellite system (program "WS-437", from 1964-1975), and an
Anti-ballistic missile system (for a whole day, I believe).

Lots of interesting weapon systems were developed for NORAD use,
including the Nike series of SAMs, the Bomarc SAM, the F-106 Delta
Dagger (and it's Genie missile: an unguided AAM with a nuclear
warhead!), and the Safeguard SBM system with its Spartan and Sprint
missiles (Sprint's claim to fame: highest accelleration of any missile
ever built; it had to be, because it was designed to intercept incoming
RVs within the atmosphere).

If it filies over the US, NORAD sees it, and probably has (or at least,
had, until removed by treaty or act of congress) a way of shooting at
it.


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