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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
Nasa isn't the US military Term. Entirely two seperate departments, Nasa isn't even part of the Pentegon. AS for field testing, we pretty much saw what American made equipment does to Soviet equipment in Iraq and Afganistan.
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Actually, the mentioned Atlas rockets weren't developed by NASA.
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Atlas is a family of U.S. space launch vehicles. The original Atlas missile was designed in the late 1950s and produced by the Convair Division of General Dynamics, to be used as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
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As for "American equipment Vs Soviet-made one" in Iraq and Afganistan, what do you mean exactly? Perhaps, the US Tomohawks Vs bunch of wild rebells, armed by Kalashnikovs?
During war in Yugoslavia, an outdated Soviet-built SAM successfully shot dawn US F-117 "Stealth" bomber.
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The Patriot missle system is not our anti missle platform, that was an anti aircraft missle system that worked so well it could track slower moveing missles. The Anti missle systems radar is so advanced it can detect not only the movement of a basketball in miami, from DC, but can detect wich direction it's rotateing in.
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Modern Russian OTH radars have the same technical parameters. Soviet scientists began to develop the concept of early warning systems (over the horizon radars) more that 50 years ago.
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The Soviets had also studied OTH systems starting as early as the 1950s. Their first experimental model appears to be the Veyer (Hand Fan) that was built in 1949. The next serious Soviet project was Duga-2, built outside Nikolayev (on the Black Sea coast near Odessa). Aimed eastward, Duga-2 was first started on 7 November 1971, and was successfully used to track missile launches from the far east and Pacific Ocean to the testing ground on Novaya Zemlya.
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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
Besides. It's Iran you should be worrid about, those kooks will launch a nuke soon as they have one operational, and really, who knows where they will send it.
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Frankly, I see absolutely no reasons to be scared of Iran.