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Subject: Re: ANOTHER Boeing Incident - Dozens Injured
Date: 14 Mar 2024 05:00:42 GMT
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On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 23:06:10 -0400, 68hx.1804 wrote:


>    It's an East/West diff ... the west loves the idea of "all-purpose"
>    while east trends more towards "mission-specific".

It's more my personality than vice versa but I've always preferred the 
Unix/Linux philosophy of a program that does one thing very well that can 
be chained together with similar programs. 


>    About a week ago, a US ship BARELY took out a Houthi cruse missile in
>    time - had to use its Phalanx and destroyed the target barely 200'
>    away. NOT encouraging. I think US/western ships often LOOK better
>    than they really ARE.

https://missiledefenseadvocacy.org/missile-defense-systems-2/missile-
defense-intercept-test-record/u-s-missile-defense-intercept-test-record/

The intercepts succeed most of the time. When you're playing defense 'most 
of the time' is like only being a little bit pregnant. 

https://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-ukraine-300-million-weapons-175217151.html

When I read articles like that I wonder how the Navy is fixed for rockets?