to these response missiles which would then fire and go up and try to hit it and take it out. ideally, they would like to hit it early on or in the middle and last resort way over here. what they want is numerous shots at it so they can stop it. that s really the goal. they have to have numerous shots. this is all still fairly new technology and not all entirely reliable. we don t know that the north koreans a the this point can really get a missile to go this far. but our ability to intercept it and stop it is also a tricky, tricky thing to pull off. look at the things we would use for this. this is what we would launch out of alaska and california. and it would release something like this. this is called a kill vehicle. you see it s got those little propulsion units around it there. and it also has an infrared guidance system in the nose. and that, when it gets released locks in on the nuclear warhead in this missile and it will guide this in to actually smash into that at 17,000 mil
entirely reliable. we don t know that the north koreans at this point can get a missile to go this far but our ability to intercept it and stop it is also a tricky, tricky thing to pull off. look at the things we would use for this, two-stage missile, this is what we would launch out of alaska or california and it would release an exoatmospheric kill vehicle. it s made by raytheon, infrared guidance system in the nose and that when it gets released locks in on the nuclear warhead in this missile, and it will guide this in to actually smash into that, at about 17,000 miles an hour and tear it apart. it does not explode, this is about as big as a refrigerator t just smashes into it and tears it apart. you can imagine how difficult that is to pull off but this is the technology that we re trying to perfect so that we can stop the north korean technology if and when they ever get it perfected and actually can
well, if north korea launches a missile, all those early warning systems would send the coordinates of the flight back to these response missiles which would fire and go up and try to hit it and take it out. ideally, they would like to hit it early on or in the middle and at a last resort way over here, but what they want is numerous shots at it so they can stop it. they have to have numerous shots because this is all still fairly new technology and it s not all entirely reliable. as i said, we don t know that the north koreans at this point can get a missile to go this far, but our ability to intercept it and stop it is also a tricky, tricky thing to pull off. look at the things we would use for this. as a two-stage missile, this is what we would launch out of alaska and california. this is called an exoatmospheric kill vehicle. it s got propulsion units, also an infrared guidance system in the nose. and that when it gets released locks in on the nuclear warhead