IAmNERD

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completing 74% of his throws last season.

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I keep seeing this and hype about his record. What these people pimping this stat don't mention is that something like 35 or 40% of his throws were at or behind the line of scrimmage. Dude threw a metric shot ton of screens to get that percentage.

I never claimed that they all do. Key areas like the Pacific in places like Hawaii and Guam Alaska, DC (there is an Iron Dome system surrounding DC), California most certainly have batteries on standby. That doesn't include all the Aegis destroyers positioned all across the world, whatever the Air Force/Space Force have for tracking and whatever else is out there that we have no clue about (space lasers).

My source was Google. I remember when it happened and Googled the year. It was 2020 when the US demonstrated it could shoot down an ICBM in space. We used an SM3 from an Arleigh Burke class destroyer.

It was either us or Israel that shot down one of Iran's missiles outside the earth's atmosphere when they launched all those missiles and cruise missiles a year or so ago. Might have been Israel, but I'm not sure. There's video of it.

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If our missiles could shoot other missiles out of the sky from thousands of miles away then why do we have missile defense systems in Europe in the Pacific? Why do we deploy navy ships just a couple dozen miles off the Yemeni coast to shoot down their missiles? If we can just push a button and do it from the safety of our shores why are we spending all this money and putting people in harms way? I’ll tell you why, because we don’t have the ability to do it all the way from here.

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I've already explained how we can shoot down a ballistic missile during all 3 phases. Why wouldn't we shoot one down during it's boost phase (which is the hardest to do) or the middlestage outside the atmosphere(the easiest)? Why would we purposefully let them reenter the atmosphere, really pick up speed and take the chance of missing?

And you speak of common sense?

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Because you would see batteries of missiles in and around large cities? Plus they’d have to be manned 24-7.

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Lol they are on truck launchers. Probably at most of the military bases in the country. And yeah, those bases are manned.

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Do you think our Navy is ready to intercept missiles?

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Uhhh, yeah.

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Most of ships are deployed to the other side of the planet

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Where exactly do you think these things would be launched from?

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We don’t even have enough missile systems to safeguard the majority of the United States.

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Again, how would you know?

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There is no defense against the multiple stage rockets that go into orbit unless you shoot them down at launch which would be extremely difficult. We don’t really have an effective defense against most ballistic missiles if launched in groups. Less than a dozen or so, maybe? Even that is very debatable unfortunately


Why are you making stuff up? US has deployed and proven weapons to take out missiles in the ballistic phase (Navy’s SM-3 on Aegis equipped cruisers).

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Yeah what that poster said is totally false. Ballistic missiles can be shot down during all 3 phases.

The problem with shooting down during boost phase is there isn't enough time from launch to alert and our countermeasure usually wouldn't be close enough. Midcourse phase is what most missile defense systems aim for. We recently shot down one of Iran's missiles headed for Israel outside of the atmosphere. Then there are systems like THAAD and AEGIS for missiles in the terminal phase.

I'm not sure where everyone has gotten the idea that we couldn't even dream of shooting down Russian (or any other country's) missiles. It's literally in the term "Ballistic Missile". "Ballistic" simply means it follows a ballistic trajectory (an arc), so if the computers know the angle and speed they can do a couple calculations and fire to where it intersects with its ballistic trajectory.

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it helps with decoding texts from women. Damn i run texts i get through it and it's like.
She means this with this line. She means that. Respond with..

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So your life is basically a South Park episode.

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Once your prostate has been removed, you can kiss having sex goodbye. You'll never get another hard on again.

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Nah. They have these little pumps they can install now. Imagine the old Reebok shoes from the 90s, except it gives you an instant boner instead of squeezing your feet.:lol:

Old man I used to work with got one after his bout with prostate cancer.

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Interstate 10

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Uh, that says Lincoln, AL which is not I-10 or Mobile County.

That would be I-20 in Talladega County.

Eta: I see the 2nd Pic now. My bad

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With a Glock 29. She's a hard hitting heavy recoil mammer jammer.

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I've never shot the G29, but I have shot the G20. It isn't really that bad. It had a 22lb recoil spring in it instead of the standard 17lb and that 5 lbs made a lot more difference than I would have ever believed. It was hard as hell to rack it.