Originally Posted by
Just This Once...
Originally Posted by
FODPlod
... bear in mind that every weapon system is 'obsolete' from the moment it is developed because someone somewhere will have started working on a more advanced countermeasure...
You've answered your own question unless you can identify a previous weapon system that has not eventually been surpassed or countered through technological development.
Ballistic missiles seem to have remained unsurpassed.
Aren't they a
current weapon system, possibly unsurpassed for the time being but who knows what's around the corner? They are certainly not remaining
uncountered. Here's some of the evidence:
Originally Posted by RUSI Aug 2015
MORE and more states around the world are buying ballistic-missile defence (BMD) capabilities...
In fact, BMD is the single new capability aspiration within the force-development work of the MoD Main Building and front-line command. The operation of UK forces in a ballistic-missile threat environment and the emergence of a formal defence requirement are likely to be jointly considered within the context of the forthcoming national Security Strategy and associated Strategic Defence and Security Review. As a result, BMD could quickly emerge as both a political and military requirement...