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Originally posted by corsair:
In my uneducated opinion, if the attacker is relatively nearby, launch a IR-guided (heat seeker) missile at the ICBM, being a hot-launch the missile will home-in and detonate if not on the missile close enough to destroy it or, create a mission kill.

You have less than 45 seconds from the time it clears the silo to hit it.

It will be at Mach 1 about 15 seconds and past Mach 5 at about the end of the boost (1st stage)

If you have not had a solution and fired before 30 seconds, you likely will not succeed.

And you better be within 5 miles from the launch site.

Think, Greyhound racing but with a boosted bunny.