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I suppose it depends how you define ABM then, if its just a missile that can intercept a ballistic missile most of the big players have them. Europe does, Japan does, Russia, China, arguably India. But these all tend to be fairly short ranged. The Soviets had an ABM that used a nuke to destroy...

Well that is rather the point isn't it, nuclear weapons. That immediately removes half a dozen nations from the list which torpedoes the quote referring to any nation. Any nation without nukes. Though I'd also think there's a fair case for Russia and China due to the sheer size and distances...

Oh I see, you fought valiantly so Russia could keep giving you the finger? So that the French could ignore you for decades? It was all some sort of master plan! Well now I'm just in awe, good work...? I'm sure all those people living under US installed or backed dictatorships who got thrown from...

Indeed, but even if we down grade it to a few mobile SAM batteries the ability to succeed begins to increase exponentially, because now you need several aircraft and a bunch of specialised gear, all of which isn't exactly easy to hide. You can't kill your target if he knows you are now deploying...

I'm replying to the notion America can kill a senior member of a foreign nation with impunity within his own country, nominally with drones as that is the context here but we can substitute drones for manned airstrikes and get the same answer. It can't. I mean try it over Beijing or Paris, it...

Only because they weren't using them because they had no need to. The drones are nominally friendly and apparently had no warning of this strike. If they had decided to shoot the drone down, even a basic MiG would be enough. Drones are only good for plinking undefended terrorists, against even...

Lol no :p Maybe if you're a third world tin pot dictatorship, but you don't pull that sort of thing with a nuke power. Not even the yanks are gung ho enough to let their cities get melted in a bucket of sunshine. Hell, even a trace of air defence systems would stop most of these actions dead.

I have to applaud the way Iran is handling this crisis. And by applaud I mean slow clap. Watch as their next step is to blame Israel for the failure of their nuclear programme because that Jew Einstein made physics too damn hard.