if i put a thaad, radar going with the thaad system, if i just put the whole battery there instead of the radar, this is the kind of defended area you would get. start defending certainly the radar itself if not central turkey. if i don't have engage on remote, all i have is launch on remote, this is what the picture looks like. here is the polish site, romanian site, didn't put any naval interceptors there. if i don't get engage on remote, the broad defense of europe is impossible unless you start pro live rating all over the place. that highlights the importance of that particular aspect of the defense. i was talking earlier with harold about the issue of russia. i want to at least touch on a little of why the russians are concerned. phase 4 of the european phase adaptive approach is really designed it defend the united states, not europe. up three phase iii that's europe, phase iv tcontinental united states. i assume engage on remote, a standard missile 3 block 2b of different speeds. this shows the defended footprint going against an iranian icbm. let's assume we have icbm. this i

you would need to deploy thaad. the follow on discussions with the turks, how about accepting a few interceptors. you have to be about 5 kilometers a second to protect united states from a european launch location. if you do get above 5, 5.5, 6 kilometers per second, the problem is you start potentially poseing a threat to russia. you cannot have your cake and eat it to. you can't defend from europe against iranian icbms without potentially encroaching on russian capability. though in my mind you don't encroach on it very much. most of the concerns are political. airborne infrared, space-based infrared, good sensors. you need more than one or two radars and nato radars, by the way, the french are developing radars, germans, others, hopefully they will contribute to the system. multiple radars and rapid control system. i think that's it. yeah. so that's the kind of capability the system could have. there's several key pillars required to really make this thing work fairly well, which i believe it could. >> thanks. >>