re: #454 Dark_Falcon

Not really true. Iron Dome used a good deal of the R&D work done on ABM systems.

Star Wars was the space-based stuff, the lasers and rail guns and shit. If you just mean SDI in general, then sure, but interceptor technology isn’t new, and arguably Star Wars delayed interceptor technology by a lot since so much of the focus was on the Star Wars pie in the sky stuff that would never work.

Even the ground-based stuff is a very weak argument. Very little research is every truly wasted, but if they had actually focused on tactical interception from the get-go they’d be a lot farther ahead.