What is our doctrine concerning prolonged domestic air defense warfare...

I see, but that does mean the sheer infeasibility of a foreign aerial invasion is our security?

DC has a SHORAD and HIMAD systems in the form of Avengers and Patriot batteries. The MDA has GMD defending the homeland against ICBMs. In addition to you know the largest Air and Sea Power force the world has even known which are always mobilized.

Nobody attacks population centers for the sake of merely killing civilians. Setting aside the moral/ethical implications, that is a waste of resources when there are significant military assets that require priority. Cities simply do not require air defense assets.

Nike AJAX and Hercules systems were stationed were they were not to protect those cities, just because those locations happened to be situated at air corridors which inbound air tracks would utilize.

Most area defense in the D.C. area are done with the Kongsberg NASAMS, pic related.

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The funny thing was that Hippies hated having anti nuclear missles protecting our cities so we got rid of them.

I have just the image for you.

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>ships

Didn't even consider our ship-based AD systems. kek, I was far too focused on the vatnik way of doing air defense that i forgot we have a navy.

Interesting. I didn't know we had SLAMRAAMs in the AO. I don't really see the point. Static defenses seem pretty antiquated and subject to sabotage.

>Nobody attacks population centers for the sake of merely killing civilians.
In the case of the modern West, it might have real implications as to whether anyone else wants to keep fighting. You dust the major shitlib population centers and the greater agenda likely dies with them.

Yeah I'm not sure either, unless the higher ups don't trust patriot either, which doesn't make a lot of sense. But these systems could be from a time when patriots had a lot more difficulty hitting aircraft then they do now

> My understanding is that Burkes have actually been deployed as an ocean-based missile-defense platform for the US before, using their SM-3s

As standard anti-air or as ABM missiles?