Planning To Talk...

 ... about it tomorrow. I am talking about this: 

Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Program: Background and Issues for Congress

It is a good document by the intrepid Congressional Research Service, which exposes a rather sad state of the affairs in the US military industry but it also exposes a very dramatic lag in air and anti-missile defense in the US across the board. This was prepared in February this year, before Iran demonstrated capabilities or rather lack thereof of all those systems. Moreover, the rigidity of the "planning" in terms of positioning US Navy's Aegis DDGs as possible ABM "outposts" completely ignore the fact that no US Navy system can intercept anything similar to 3M22 with its Mach=9+ and 1,500 kilometer range. Yet, they still grasp for the obsolete systems and operations based on them. 

Obviously claims like these are laughable:

MDA is working closely with the Navy to develop, field, and upgrade SBT defenses to counter more advanced maneuvering and hypersonic threats. SBT Inc 2 is deployed. MDA is analyzing the evasion maneuvers that hypersonic weapons may perform and addressing them in Aegis SBT Inc 3. SBT Inc 3 upgrade and delivery are in 2025 and include terminal defense capability against hypersonic threats. MDA will conduct flight tests against advanced threat-representative targets in FY 2024 and FY 2025…    

For starters one has to have "targets" which simulate hypersonic missiles. The US is not even in the vicinity of fielding even "slow" Mach=5 hypersonic system. But, but... never miss the opportunity to parade oneself as a "winner", LOL))

The U.S. will take even longer to field a purpose-built, long-range hypersonic defense system expected by the 2030s, despite a $1 billion cash injection from Japan, but Pentagon officials say they can speed up a less capable alternative by the end of the decade. The threat posed by offensive hypersonic glide vehicles (HGV) materialized less than five years ago. Russia’s Avangard and China’s DF-17 and -27 missile systems are now operational, with the latter posing a long-range threat to U.S. warships and land bases in the Western Pacific region.

"Less-capable" being a euphemism for some n-th iteration of good ol' SM-3s, which today are made completely obsolete against modern hypersonic weapons. Let alone something like strategic Avangard. By the time in 2030s and IF they will be able to field anything even remotely capable, think where will Russian technology be in this respect. Obviously, RS-28 Sarmat due to its insane energy can fly any trajectory, including through... South Pole, making all those imaginary systems useless. Mind you, Sarmat can carry up to 10 Avangards. Good luck "intercepting" them. I am on record, and you can quote me--the US lost the arms race, especially so, by a knockout, in missile development. Now, it is all Kabuki Theater and damage control mode. Remember--at first slow, and then all at once?