• scoobford@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    Yes, antimissile systems will shoot down most of your missile volley, so you need to launch enough that they become overwhelmed and the few that make it through accomplish your goal.

    We don’t know exactly how much “most” is, but its enough that the powers that be consider our current level of armament to be necessary.

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      3 hours ago

      Shooting down a nuclear icbm doesn’t really help as much as you think, if it catches it.

      Not to mention the atmosphere lighting up wouldn’t be much better