Talk:Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System

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I added the cleanup tag because it needs a basic rewrite. There are numerous grammar errors and in general the organization is not clear. Also, topics such as the North Korea test do not belong in this article.--Aaronp808 13:23, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Updated page

I have performed a massive rewrite to the entire page, added some of my own pictures and tried to make the document more clear and concise. Obviously this is an on going project and the page still needs much work. I also need to get more "official" references then just what I remember. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lasre (talk • contribs) 15:18, 26 April 2007 (UTC).

Do you feel this page should be somehow merged with the main Aegis page? --Hydrant 02:06, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to have to say no. You could really place Aegis BMD in with MDA or the Navy. In fact, although the navy manages the design and implementation of the ABMD, the funding comes from MDA. Besides, if we put everything that an Aegis crusier can do (with all the specifics) on the Aegis page, it would be huge. Lasre 12:51, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

Here's the pop culture trivia cruft that doesn't belong in the article. --Dual Freq 04:09, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

According to The Wall Street Journal, the program was the brainchild of former Doobie Brothers guitarist Jeff Baxter.^[1]

Author Tom Clancy made a reference to the Aegis system's capability as an anti-ballistic missile platform in his book 'The Bear and the Dragon'. In the book it explains in some technical detail the ability of the AN/SPY-1 to track a ballistic inbound. The only issue was with the gate (specified time for radar signal to return to receiver) and the software for the SM-3 warhead.

Dual Freq; Thanks for taking that stuff out. Although I don't necessary agree about the doobie brothers, whoever but that stuff in about "The Bear and the Dragon" had no business doing so. Not only are they trying to portray fiction as fact, but also they didn't even get the story strait. For the record, the missile Clancy writes about in "The Bear and the Dragon" is the SM-2 Block IVa, which was cancelled about 6 years ago. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lasre (talk • contribs) 20:20, 31 October 2007 (UTC)