Defense Systems Quotes

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

Today, we are not likely to need to organize local militias for our defense now we have something called the Pentagon.

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

According to the committee's findings, a network of mobile missiles carrying the newest warheads could be tested by China this year and deployed as early as 2002.

The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river.

I don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

Of course, one of the most disturbing features is the fact that while we have had roughly a ten year pause in the arms race where a lot of good work was done, this has now come to an end. For what we are seeing at the present time are new developments in anti-missile weaponry, drones, and so on.

In fact, the same difficulties faced by Reagan in the 1980-s are still there [in the beginning of 21 century]: how do you hit a bullet with a bullet? The technology is getting better, but it still is focused on one interceptor knocking down one missile. In war, there would be many more challenges, more chaos, more uncertainty.

Military technology is like a continuing chess game, with no final move.

Neither our oceans nor our radar nor our fighters can keep us intact through another major war.

I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.

The Aegis Ashore sites in Poland and Romania are designed to counter long-range ballistic missiles that may be launched from other nations, outside of the Euro-Atlantic area, against our European NATO partners.

We have neglected to develop an offensive capability in chemical war and have no defense worthy of the name.... In biological warfare we have neither an offensive nor a defensive capability.

I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles quickly

To keep providing our soldiers, sailors and Marines with 21st-century firepower, Picatinny needs 21st-century laboratories and research and development facilities.

Here's why nuclear defense makes sense. And I know something about this. A missile can take an airplane out of the air. A better missile can take a missile out of the air.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

It's during wartime that innovations happen.

China has been trading technology and systems with Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Pakistan, North Korea now for years and years. Indigenously? No they're not going to have one. But they're getting dangerously close to having one. We can all have reason to suspect. Why would they not if they're trading with these countries?

Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to defensive capability. I believe that is the route this country will eventually go.

Most people in the country didn't - and might still not - know about how powerful the United States is. They think North Korean weapons are the best in the world, and they're very proud of them. They believe they can protect the country from anyone.

Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.

The automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991.