Reply #63: Honestly that is a major improvement in your mind...

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enough to get all worked up about.

Let's say you had an interceptor that could hit a missile moving at Mach 8 or Mach 10.

Lets say it has a strike range of 200km.
You would have 60sec response time on a Mach 10 missile and a massively longer 72 sec response time with a "slow moving" Mach 8 missile.

The point stands the DF-21 is a 1960s era weapon system based on an obsolete Soviet design that has no been modified to start nuclear wars by shooting at carriers instead of land based targets.

Yup definatly warrants a trillion dollar reaction from the military.

How about we forget about all these strategic toys and do things like:
better bodyarmor
better small arms
better light armored vehicles.

You could fund the entire cost of R&D, development, production, fielding, and spares of a next gen armor, or next gen carbine for a tiny fraction of developing some (not so) needed counter to a 1960s era weapon.