Nuclear Defence

[MANT!]

A limited US missile defence system is operational right now..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-Based_Midcourse_Defense

and another system is coming on line as well..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_Defense

The USA fielded a ABM system for 4 months in 1976..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program

Russia has had a missile defence system operational since 1971 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-35_anti-ballistic_missile_system and has an upgraded system in place since 1995
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-135_anti-ballistic_missile_system

Old news really...

Conversely, one could boost up 1 trillion dollars and knit them together one by one... forming a missile defence shield over the USA..

 

[All Seeing Eye]

We could have an interceptor missile that breaks apart into smaller missiles which make up a larger area, these missiles will take a formation that would surround the target missile. As they approach and come to pass the nuke they will explode releasing bullets which contain powerful acid, the bullets would penetrate the missile injecting the deadly acid into the inner workings of the inbound nuke.

Another option would be a missile that releases a large net. As the interceptor missile approaches the nuke it shoots a huge net out at the nuke which surrounds it, the thing is though this net has tiny warheads on the ends of each corner, as the net surrounds the inbound nuke the tiny warheads swing around and detonate on the back of the nuke.
The net is no ordinary net neither, it's made of tiny bendy tubes that are filled with flammable explosives so when the back of the nuke explodes the net explodes in a chain reaction wiping out the nuke.

All these missiles would be secretly located in orbit and would intercept detected nuclear launches straight away. The Missiles would be released towards Earth and hit the enemy missile head on.

A limited US missile defence system is operational right now..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-Based_Midcourse_Defense

and another system is coming on line as well..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_Defense

The USA fielded a ABM system for 4 months in 1976..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program

Russia has had a missile defence system operational since 1971 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-35_anti-ballistic_missile_system and has an upgraded system in place since 1995
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-135_anti-ballistic_missile_system

Old news really...

Conversely, one could boost up 1 trillion dollars and knit them together one by one... forming a missile defence shield over the USA..

How the heck did the Russians have defence shield technology if the US even now find it difficult to intercept missiles.

 

[Alpha_Geek]

Still waiting to know why the llama-tron won't work, Taccy.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Still waiting to know why the llama-tron won't work, Taccy.

Goes without saying.

 

[Squiggy]

The llamas aren't being spun to a fantastic enough speed?

 

[Scout101]

What if we could induce a magnetic charge in the llamas?

 

[Squiggy]

We'd have to wrap them in wires and send them to the bottom of the ocean for that. And THAT is just silly. Quit being silly.

 

[Scout101]

Can't just strap them down a certain stationary distance from each other? What if they were soaked in Extra Strength Oil of Oregano?

Worst case, they'd have nice shiny coats as they were fired up into the air...

 

[Alpha_Geek]

Maybe if we inject the llamas with the swine flu virus, the mercury would give them more mass to overcome the inertia problems.

 

[Trekker4747]

We could have an interceptor missile that breaks apart into smaller missiles which make up a larger area, these missiles will take a formation that would surround the target missile. As they approach and come to pass the nuke they will explode releasing bullets which contain powerful acid, the bullets would penetrate the missile injecting the deadly acid into the inner workings of the inbound nuke.

Another option would be a missile that releases a large net. As the interceptor missile approaches the nuke it shoots a huge net out at the nuke which surrounds it, the thing is though this net has tiny warheads on the ends of each corner, as the net surrounds the inbound nuke the tiny warheads swing around and detonate on the back of the nuke.
The net is no ordinary net neither, it's made of tiny bendy tubes that are filled with flammable explosives so when the back of the nuke explodes the net explodes in a chain reaction wiping out the nuke.

All these missiles would be secretly located in orbit and would intercept detected nuclear launches straight away. The Missiles would be released towards Earth and hit the enemy missile head on.

Where on EARTH do you dream this stuff up?!

 

[Hofner]

Still waiting to know why the llama-tron won't work, Taccy.

Well, the problem with the llama-tron is that the Russians would come up with a countermeasure called "Pigs-on-the-wing" where they shoot pigs at the llamas, intercepting them and leaving their nukes free to continue.

Then the US would have to come up with a counter-counter measure called the "Cow-flinger" to intercept the pigs and so on and so on.

At this point Tachyon Shield's ideas are starting to look sensible now.

Robert

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Where on EARTH do you dream this stuff up?!

My mind has a special area put aside for creating all my fantastic ideas.

 

[Scout101]

Fantastical ideas, Tachy. As in won't work, likely while violating several well-known laws of physics. Often involving magic, sometimes even to create the need for the product being suggested.

Fantastic ideas are something else entirely...

 

[Trekker4747]

Where on EARTH do you dream this stuff up?!

My mind has a special area put aside for creating all my fantastic ideas.

I could probably offer a suggestion on where this part of your mind is...

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Development of a "Phantom Zone Projector" to dismiss any incoming nukes into an alternate "ghost" dimension seems a good way to proceed . . .

Ironically, it takes a nuclear detonation to fragment the window representing that dimension.

 

[Gepard]

The net is no ordinary net neither, it's made of tiny bendy tubes that are filled with flammable explosives so when the back of the nuke explodes the net explodes in a chain reaction wiping out the nuke.

That's it. There's no way you're serious about this stuff.

 

[MANT!]

How the heck did the Russians have defence shield technology if the US even now find it difficult to intercept missiles.

The Russian system uses nuclear warheads in the missiles..don't have to be accurate when blowing up entire portions of sky...

Ohh one more defender in the mix..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1

all part of a comprehensive limited missle defence structure..

 

[Zachary Smith]

Development of a "Phantom Zone Projector" to dismiss any incoming nukes into an alternate "ghost" dimension seems a good way to proceed . . .

Ironically, it takes a nuclear detonation to fragment the window representing that dimension.

KNEEL before Zod!

 

[Crazy Eddie]

What types of defences and technology could be utilised now or perhaps developed in the near future that would be capable of defending against, stopping and/or destroying nuclear weapons fired from one country to another?

The SM-3 Standard missile is specifically designed to do that--if it actually works.

The ABL (airborne laser) is designed to do that--if it actually works.

And the land-based counterpart to the SM-3 also carries an exo-atmospheric kill vehicle capable of shooting down an ICBM before it enters the atmosphere--if it actually works (and it almost certainly doesn't).

We've had anti-missile systems since the 1980s, but none of them actually work. The only thing that's changed is that eight years of an extremely opaque, epically corrupt executive branch pretty much handed defense contracts for each of these systems to the highest bidder whether they worked or not. So even if the threat from ICBMs was even credible (which it isn't) there are no weapon systems in existence capable of reliably defending against them.

As for the GI Joe references... well, a nanotech weapon is about as good as a nuclear weapon: it only takes one guy with a suitcase and a detonator to slag an entire city, and as Henry Waxman put it once, There is no missile shield in the world capable of intercepting a truck bomb.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

We could have an interceptor missile that breaks apart into smaller missiles which make up a larger area, these missiles will take a formation that would surround the target missile. As they approach and come to pass the nuke they will explode releasing bullets which contain powerful acid, the bullets would penetrate the missile injecting the deadly acid into the inner workings of the inbound nuke.

Or maybe we could spray a layer of liquid nitrogen into the upper atmosphere that would freeze the nuke solid so it would shatter on impact instead of detonating.

Or better yet: maybe if we remodulated the main deflector to emit a phased-kadyon pulse, it would depolarize the missile's tachyon waveguide telemetronimter.

How the heck did the Russians have defence shield technology if the US even now find it difficult to intercept missiles.

It's as difficult for them as it is for us. The only difference is the Russians have no particular aversion to intercepting an enemy nuke with one of their own.