Best answer I've seen is that it's a 3rd thing: a ballistic missile that modifies its flight path during the hypersonic terminal approach so that its trajectory is harder to predict. But I'll defer to the true missile nerds to correct or elaborate.
hotcouchguy
joined 4 years ago
Left it in the rain barrel
Free remote start on your free kia
Lost the drug war, lost the war on terror, now losing the infowar
Won't happen, because your officer will be an app
This would almost work except for no one anywhere wanting this
Beanplant posting
If you can't do anything relevant, you can always rehash some decades old debate instead
But actually, that makes some sense. Anyone who has protested in their actual physical vicinity knows how shook they get when there's even a hint of a threat to their safety.
Your framing also leads to some interesting predictions. Like they would be unwilling to risk full nuclear war because that would actually be a risk to them personally. And maybe in a post-revolutionary situation they could be convinced to cut a deal instead of going down like the Romanovs. They'll kill millions for a slightly larger yacht, but they are "rationally" concerned with their own lives, and perhaps nothing else.
i ain't reading all that
we're so back tho
or it's so over
I'd bet it's higher