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| Pentagon to test another Conventional Prompt Global Strike craft |
| 2010-11-27 |
| This article consists of four pages. Looks like the first test failed because of an age-old problem called "inertial coupling" where yaw induces roll, and the roll got out of hand so the autopilot splashed the test aircraft in the ocean. The whole thing kinda reminds me of the WW II era German "Antipodal Bomber" in that it is designed to skip along the upper atmosphere until it gets near its target, except this one dives in for the kill. At these speeds, it seems that including allowing time for launch, we should be able to easily hit anywhere on the planet within about an hour. The title of the project has the word "conventional" in it for some reason. |
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| Posted by: Uleger Barnsmell4617 2010-11-27 20:24 |
| #2 Well that's all nice, but why don't we build some secret 16/70 MK11Teen guns to back this up? Throw some steath shit on 'em, mount 'em high speed electrified railsroads, hell yeah! 2 thousands lbs. of armour piecer Wily Pete could solve all kinda problems. I guess we might need assault railroads tho... this is where we must be Frank and start building the bridges now. |
| Posted by: Goldies Every Damn Where 2010-11-27 13:59 |
| #1 this is b'cause the powers that be want desperately to keep the anti nuke squirrels off their backs. Which misses the whole point of the anti-nuke exercise render the U.S. incapable of seriously threatening the existance of other world leaders. Conventional strike has ppl like Tov. Putin and the Peking gang scared silly-- we can decapitate, punch out silos, etc, in an hour or less w/o crossing the nuclear threshold. Nobody else has anything close to that capability. Even terrorists/spies/freedumb fighters/etc. have long lead times, and are a one-shot with lower reliability. These guys have the mental image of a JDAM on top of an icbm or slbm. Pinpoint accuracy plus less than 30 mins warning time. Add in the mental image of Saddam hanging 10, and it is flop sweat tiem!! This is the same reason they were scared silly of the Pershing II-- the leadership had 18 mins from launch to get out of the kill zone, and they knew they couldn't react that quickly. |
| Posted by: nGuard 2010-11-27 08:27 |