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All missiles have a predetermined path, as soon as the booster burns out.
Thus, your complaint here is meaningless.
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Missiles don't have a predetermined path, and even if they did, we wouldn't know it beforehand.
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Except, of course, they prove that the system can hit and kill incoming warheads.
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Under conditions that don't exist in the real world. It was testing designed for proof-of-concept and testing technological elements. It does not accurately test real-world performance.
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By this standard, no system is combat-ready until it actually sees combat. This means that the large majority of US military systems were not proven to be 'combat ready' before they were deployed.
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Correct. Many of those system all failed rather badly, see ABM in the gulf war. However, they still received testing that simulated battlefield experience, which this system has not.
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And thus, the testing shows that the system, indeed, can and does work.[
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Yeah and I can dodge bullets if you tell me where they are going to aim at and when they are going to be fired. However, in real life, I get shot and the missiles don't get intercepted.
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30 years is not the far future.
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I don't agree, but I will concede the point because I don't really care. Assuming you are correct, what are the implications.
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My statement stands:
Giving into the irrational fears of those that are not your friends is hardly sane.
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So if an personal with irrational fears was pointing a gun at your head, you wouldn't try and keep them calm?
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These missles were known to be going into Turkey in 1959. The missile crisis was in 1962. It took them 3 years to react?
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The missiles were deployed in Turkey in '61. Let me quote the wikipedia article on the crisis. "Khrushchev publicly expressed anger and personal offense from the Turkish missile emplacement. The Cuban missile deployment — the first time Soviet missiles were outside the USSR — was his response to U.S. nuclear missiles in Turkey"