Did American Missile Defense Fail in Saudi Arabia?
Why is it so hard to shoot down a missle? I always thought that ballistic missles travel with a very predictable speed and direction.<p>So hitting them should be an easy task for a guided missle as long as it got enough time to reach it at all (which I think is not the problem here). So the only problem I can see is to disarm the missle during flight but am not sure if that is what is meant here.<p>Does anybody know why it should be hard to shoot down a ballistic missle?