Missile defense worked great against Iran. Multiple nations turned their airports into air-to-surface missile defense batteries, actually intercepting the missile before it hit the empty ground beneath them. In Dubai they built anti-missile skyscrapers that impeded the path beyond. Tel Aviv is what we call a "sponge garden" in green infrastructure terminology, soaking up all the explosive energy and dissipating it harmlessly into surrounding buildings.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
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By our calculations, the US suburbs would be able to intercept all of China's current missile arsenal before being depleted
China could fire missiles at US infrastructure all day and nobody could tell the difference. "That's strategy, buddy." - Sun Tzu
i wonder how many years of people living in the suburbs blowing up the suburbs is worth environmentally?
Saying that missile defense worked against Iran feels like a set up for a title card from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
I feel like even if I was in the business of selling missiles I wouldn’t want this kind of press
People are literally living in different realities. My parents have no clue the U.S. basically lost all its shit in the middle east
If the 'missile defense' here is 'getting hit with missiles' then 'the enemies being too nice to finish the job' then it might actually be true
I guess if you have a flexible definition of worked.....
"Im afraid I prematurely shot my wad, on what was supposed to be a dry run, if you will. So im afraid i've got something of a mess on my hands"
-US missile interceptor stocks
Yeah it worked so well that the usa was forced to negociate with Iran
Incredible levels of cope
I made this same mistake, it's not Missile Defense, it's Missile Command that worked on Iran
You know, that old Atari game?
Huge hit in Iran
Remember those drone shows that China does where the whole fleet makes images and whatever?
But also not that cool. Not for China specifically but in general the future belongs to the SC2 pro. It's kind of a horrifying way to make a place absolutely uninhabitable. You spend a couple million on an autonomous fleet of explode anything that moves drones+10 heat/night vision rinnegan ahh sensor drone and a solar panel recharge station. Then the whole locust-drone plague costs as much as taking a shit on a battleship.
You actually unironically have that protoss ship, the carrier which synthesizes and charges drones while moving around. Then you have fucking zealots made out of the little faceless bipedal guys. You have the attack dog bots. All that before you ever see another person or even get their judgement as to whether to show discretion for whether to not attack something that moves. You have all the trauma of war and the other society that forgot that they A-moved into your town 3 months ago because it, again, cost them as much as a paint job on an airplane.
intercepting hypersonic missiles will always be a huge challenge. It's like trying to use a bullet to intercept a bullet, but the hypersonic missile is even more challenging to intercept because it's maneuverable.