Martian2
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There is no current deployed system that can intercept a re-entry warhead. There is a a reason for that. Velocity.
Velocity however is only an enemy if the warhead is nuclear. If it is not, it is the missile's enemy as well. Can you even begin to fathom how accurate you must be to hit a moving ship at those speeds?
I posted before, the Carrier might as well be as small as a fishing boat in those speeds..
Can you even begin to fathom how fast a modern gigahertz microprocessor (1,000,000,000 operations per second) can process information? To the microprocessor, the ballistic missile is moving in slow motion and the aircraft carrier isn't moving at all.
Intel Unveils 1.5 Gigahertz Microprocessor - eNotes.com
"Article abstract: Intel introduced its Pentium 4 microprocessor, with processing speeds of 1.5 gigahertz, a far cry from the Intel 8088, which it released in 1979 for ..."