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| Top Secret U.S. Nuke War Plans Thwarted |
| 2016-04-04 |
| But the vexing accuracy gap isn’t about targeting innocent civilians or ending the world as we know it. If deterring war requires a capacity to limit the damage a nuclear-armed enemy could wreak, both a nuclear blast and pinpoint accuracy are believed required to disable or destroy the hardest targets, according to defense sources. Air Force briefing slides reviewed by The Daily Beast characterize the Minuteman 3 as being 50 percent less accurate than the MX was. That could mean the difference between disabling a very hard target and leaving it untouched. |
| Posted by:Blossom Unains5562 |
| #7 AFAIK, all our stuff is pretty much antique. |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-04-04 14:04 |
| #6 No the Minuteman three is more like the Phantom. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-04-04 11:39 |
| #5 And I have to ask this question: Is the Minute Man 3 the space command equivalent of the F-35? |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2016-04-04 02:42 |
| #4 Does it really take a direct hit by 1 MT warhead to knock out a hardened missile silo? My gosh me, that's a thousand TONS or 2 million pounds of explosive. So you could level a major city and not dig a hole in the ground deep enough to disable a missile silo?? Wouldn't the zillion tons of debris piled on the blast doors be enough. Please explain, my Combat Engineer explosives expertise can't comprehend why? |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2016-04-04 02:41 |
| #3 But the boomers can still get to the arabian gulf. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-04-04 00:39 |
| #2 No wonder Canada approached Iran. |
| Posted by: Whaimble Gletch4918 2016-04-04 00:35 |
| #1 Size does count. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-04-04 00:17 |