sferrin wrote:

There is no way in hell the KVs have enough cross-range ability to be
chasing multiple missiles. They are strictly to go after decoys to
raise the odds of killing warheads.


How do you think the Russians are going to view this? They didn't like
the idea when it was just ten missiles, and this doesn't help things much.
We keep pushing them enough on this, and just for the sake of national
pride they might do something around the time that ABM base starts
getting built.
People say: "Oh, what will they do? This is no threat to
them."....without remembering that the Soviets had no idea that we were
going to go completely bonkers when we found out that they were
installing nuclear missiles in Cuba.
Around the time the concrete starts getting poured on that Polish launch
site it might get bombed.
They keep telling us they don't like this idea one bit, and we keep
ignoring them.
That's how wars get started.
We say the reason the base is so far east is to protect Europe also.
If that's the case then let Europe build it and pay for it - both in a
monetary and political sense.
From a strategic point of view, it would be best to get it as near to
the prospective launch point as possible, so that the missiles could be
intercepted as shortly after liftoff as possible, and before they deploy
decoys and penaids. Since this missile are supposed to be coming from
Iran or Syria, a ABM base in Turkey would not only be more effective,
but remove the problems Russia has with it.
Russia even offered us a radar base to use in their southeastern region,
but of course we turned them down. Which doesn't exactly assuage their
concerns over the ABM system being aimed at them, and not rogue
Mideastern states.

Pat