captainswirly's comments

On: Missile defense is NP-complete

[captainswirly]

This is rocket defense, not missile defense.

Pretty much nothing can stop those ICBMs - those aren't rockets.

If you dig deeper than mainstream news - Iran is lighting Israel up with those ICBMs, but they don't use them too often.

[nerfbatplz → captainswirly]

Technically Iran fires SRBMs and MRBMs not ICBMs. They intentionally gimp their missiles to avoid advertising ICBM range as a way of placating Europe.

[captainswirly → nerfbatplz]

Cope harder. I saw the videos that Israel tried to ban.

Whatever you want to call them, they are "hypersonic" traveling over 15k mph.

They definitely look fast too in the videos where they smash into Israeli housing destroying everything in an instant.

[Maken → captainswirly]

ICBM means the missile is able to be launched into other continent (more than 5K kilometers in range), not about its effective warhead. Iranian missiles are fast and efficient, but their effective range is essentially being able to target Israel and the Gulf States, which means they are not ICBMs. Also, the one country in the Middle East who does have ICBM missiles and can target Europe is Israel, not Iran.

[echoangle → captainswirly]

The IC in ICBM mean Intercontinental and specifies the range, not how impressive it looks in videos.