Right now the USN doesn't use any OTH missiles for ship-to-ship duties. We keep the Harpoon (XGM-84) around because it's cheap and with some minor mods (a GPS unit) can be used as a land attack missile.
The preferred anti-ship system right now is an SM-2 because with them you maintain positive control throughout the entire flight. It's also a hell of a lot faster than a subsonic Harpoon, which combined with the solid fuel makes it a lot more dangerous.
I've found that if you pay for extra support from Dell (such as an at-home, or other higher end service plan) you tend to get quite good service I may bitch about how I needed 5 power bricks and 4 motherboard replacements for my Inspiron, but I did get them free of charge, and within 48 hours every single time.
Transit/Transportation drivers in the US have similar rules to those in Europe. It makes it rather weird that a hospital can require doctors and residents to work long hours on very little sleep, but we don't allow a train engineer to do the same. Yes the economic cost of the train engineer screwing up is higher, but it could be argued that the doctor's screwups have a higher personal cost.
Well if they bust the myth that President Obama is pro-applied science (see just about everything he's done relating to science), or President Obama uses this myth as a chance to change is position of the AirBorne Laser program then I'll be happy.
In addition to using nuclear weapons, the US has also threatened to use nuclear weapons on more occasions than all other nations combined.
That's because the US has 1. Had them for longer 2. Had more of them than other people for a a significant period of time (The US arsenal was larger than the Soviet one up into the 70's) 2A. Has enough of them to ensure a reliable deterrent even in the event of a first strike removing most of the devices from the arsenal (this is why NEW START is bad - it gets force levels low enough that ABM [which isn't and shouldn't go away] and a first strike can eliminate the threat of a counter attack). 3. For over a decade had a policy of using conventional forces as a tripwire for the nuclear forces (see the development of nuclear artillery and the Pentomic Division).
They have one (around Moscow), and it's been operational for decades. They just didn't shut theirs down when the US shutdown the Stanley Mickelson Complex in North Dakota. I'm sure they would love to see how the US solved some of the systems and sensor integration problems (which have been holding up the S-400 SAM).
You do realize that the agreement that was just signed simply ties the current and future European systems (Dutch, German, and Spanish SM-3; German-US-Italian MEADS; French SAMP/T; and US SM-3s in Eastern Europe) to the current and future US sensor network? And you realize that the current network already ties in mobile THAAD batteries, SM-3 equipped AEGIS Cruisers and Destroyers (US and Japanese), and the GBI bases in Alaska and California?
And that the whole thing is in it's simplest form a giant systems integration problem, one similar to what the US has already done?
Has anyone ever seen a google ad? Google is the Mario Andretti of the search engine world, and Microsoft just came out with Ford Torus with a tail fin and a racing stripe.
Yes I have. Earlier this year, they ran one during the Superbowl.
Because that ICBM can be shot down with 60's era tech. The ICBM is going to come in on a fixed, and therefor predictable course, while the bomber can maneuver, carry ECM gear, and even in certain situations (look up DAMS and Pyewacket) shoot back.
Last nuclear armed UAV we had (QH-50 DASH) suffered from reliability problems, while the non-nuclear version we sold to Japan, didn't. The positive control links needed for nuclear devices present problems when you don't have people on board.
What is worse is that we flat out can't build B-52s if we wanted to. The main wing spar was a single piece, and the forge that made them is now razors. On the upside, all of the tooling for the B-1 and the B-2 are in storage someplace. Lockmart is doing the same (storage) with the long-lead tooling for the F-22.
That makes sense if you reject the possibility that humanity has the potential to destroy itself. What happens when some crazy guy weaponizes an Influenza strain that releases blue ring octopus toxin? Or breeds a hybrid of influenza and small pox?
Having a remote location that you can seal off is worth it.
It would buy you maybe another tenth of a second in dwell time. After that, the chrome has broken down due to heat, and then the material just fails. This happens because even astronomical mirrors don't reflect all of the incident light, thus some of the incoming light is converted to heat, which reduces the reflectivity. Now you've got a feedback loop where the heat causes more heat. Not long after that the base material fails - and can fail spectacularly.
With the proliferation of large Anti-ship cruise missiles to non-state actors (see Hezbollah). The threat to American forces deployed around the globe is rising. Then again, I'm going to guess that you are some lefty pacifist, and thus only worthy of derision and scorn.
Pol Pot tried about as hard as he could to form a communist state. He managed to kill off about a fifth of his nation's people. He's the most damning indictment of Communism there is.
Well we were going to turn the YAL-1 into AL-1, and buy a few more of them, but this wonderful thing called Obama showed up and *poof* changed the program back into an R&D one from a procurement one. All hail Obama, king of the idiots!
Update: I looked at Postal's 'Work' and it conisted of taking public source images, and puting cross-hairs at the center of them. Yeah, let's ignore the fact that the cameras are fixed, and the missiles and interceptors are moving in a three dimentional volume, because then we couldn't lie so easily!
Postal is a known lier. and thus anything he says can be ignored automatically. He's known for listening to briefings, turning around and saying the exact opposite, and then demanding that someone prove him wrong. Missile Defense works. It worked in the 1960s, and it works today. Anyone who says otherwise is either a lying bastard (like Postal) or uninformed.
I don't have clearance either (just an educated layman), and I seriously doubt that people with clearance would venture into this debate.
Except decoys and other countermeasures don't work. We (the US) have had the sensors and computers to differentiate between real RVs and decoys, because, unless the decoy has the exact size, mass, and thermal signature as the real thing, we can ignore it. How we can is by tracking it on radar (a less massive RV wouldn't react the same to the Earth's mass, that is it wouldn't fall so fast, due to less inertia to punch through the atmosphere). And Thermal properties are important because the electronics in nuclear devices are sensitive and like to be kept in a nice stable temperature range. (Major source for the above paragraph is B. Bruce-Briggs' work "The Shield of Faith").
As for MIRVs, any public time-lapse photographs, you will see that the individual RVs are released sequentially, not all at once like you see on TV (source - MX missile test photographs at the National Museum of the United States Air Force).
And yes, the minor course correction features of modern RVs to allow for some accuracy adjustments. This allows us to use smaller devices, which fits with the policy of not directly harming civilians (as codified the various Geneva Conventions), but not letting civilian casualties stop us.
An ICBM is a suborbital rocket with a relatively huge payload capacity because it doesn't need to carry its warheads all the way up to orbital speed, and it doesn't have to waste payload mass on landing structure like heatshields and wings. You can carry a hell of a lot more tricks for dodging countermissiles on an ICBM than you can with this toy shuttle's payload bay.
Wrong. An RV (Re-entry Vehicle) comes in on a mathematically fixed path (that's why it's called a BALLISTIC MISSILE). The minor course correction ability that they have is to improve accuracy. Besides, Even SPARTAN (LIM-49A) and GBI have the range to hit the warhead bus before discharge of the warheads. Plus ICBMs don't have the energy you think they do.
Yes, because a supersonic thermal bloom won't attract the attention of NorthCom, who won't vector in some fighters with look-down-shoot down radar (like F-15Cs and F-22s) to kill the thing.
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The TASMs were pulled from service years ago.
Right now the USN doesn't use any OTH missiles for ship-to-ship duties. We keep the Harpoon (XGM-84) around because it's cheap and with some minor mods (a GPS unit) can be used as a land attack missile.
The preferred anti-ship system right now is an SM-2 because with them you maintain positive control throughout the entire flight. It's also a hell of a lot faster than a subsonic Harpoon, which combined with the solid fuel makes it a lot more dangerous.
I've found that if you pay for extra support from Dell (such as an at-home, or other higher end service plan) you tend to get quite good service I may bitch about how I needed 5 power bricks and 4 motherboard replacements for my Inspiron, but I did get them free of charge, and within 48 hours every single time.
Transit/Transportation drivers in the US have similar rules to those in Europe. It makes it rather weird that a hospital can require doctors and residents to work long hours on very little sleep, but we don't allow a train engineer to do the same. Yes the economic cost of the train engineer screwing up is higher, but it could be argued that the doctor's screwups have a higher personal cost.
Well if they bust the myth that President Obama is pro-applied science (see just about everything he's done relating to science), or President Obama uses this myth as a chance to change is position of the AirBorne Laser program then I'll be happy.
In addition to using nuclear weapons, the US has also threatened to use nuclear weapons on more occasions than all other nations combined.
That's because the US has
1. Had them for longer
2. Had more of them than other people for a a significant period of time (The US arsenal was larger than the Soviet one up into the 70's)
2A. Has enough of them to ensure a reliable deterrent even in the event of a first strike removing most of the devices from the arsenal (this is why NEW START is bad - it gets force levels low enough that ABM [which isn't and shouldn't go away] and a first strike can eliminate the threat of a counter attack).
3. For over a decade had a policy of using conventional forces as a tripwire for the nuclear forces (see the development of nuclear artillery and the Pentomic Division).
They have one (around Moscow), and it's been operational for decades. They just didn't shut theirs down when the US shutdown the Stanley Mickelson Complex in North Dakota. I'm sure they would love to see how the US solved some of the systems and sensor integration problems (which have been holding up the S-400 SAM).
You do realize that the agreement that was just signed simply ties the current and future European systems (Dutch, German, and Spanish SM-3; German-US-Italian MEADS; French SAMP/T; and US SM-3s in Eastern Europe) to the current and future US sensor network? And you realize that the current network already ties in mobile THAAD batteries, SM-3 equipped AEGIS Cruisers and Destroyers (US and Japanese), and the GBI bases in Alaska and California?
And that the whole thing is in it's simplest form a giant systems integration problem, one similar to what the US has already done?
Has anyone ever seen a google ad? Google is the Mario Andretti of the search engine world, and Microsoft just came out with Ford Torus with a tail fin and a racing stripe.
Yes I have. Earlier this year, they ran one during the Superbowl.
Because that ICBM can be shot down with 60's era tech. The ICBM is going to come in on a fixed, and therefor predictable course, while the bomber can maneuver, carry ECM gear, and even in certain situations (look up DAMS and Pyewacket) shoot back.
Last nuclear armed UAV we had (QH-50 DASH) suffered from reliability problems, while the non-nuclear version we sold to Japan, didn't. The positive control links needed for nuclear devices present problems when you don't have people on board.
What is worse is that we flat out can't build B-52s if we wanted to. The main wing spar was a single piece, and the forge that made them is now razors. On the upside, all of the tooling for the B-1 and the B-2 are in storage someplace. Lockmart is doing the same (storage) with the long-lead tooling for the F-22.
That makes sense if you reject the possibility that humanity has the potential to destroy itself. What happens when some crazy guy weaponizes an Influenza strain that releases blue ring octopus toxin? Or breeds a hybrid of influenza and small pox?
Having a remote location that you can seal off is worth it.
It would buy you maybe another tenth of a second in dwell time. After that, the chrome has broken down due to heat, and then the material just fails. This happens because even astronomical mirrors don't reflect all of the incident light, thus some of the incoming light is converted to heat, which reduces the reflectivity. Now you've got a feedback loop where the heat causes more heat. Not long after that the base material fails - and can fail spectacularly.
With the proliferation of large Anti-ship cruise missiles to non-state actors (see Hezbollah). The threat to American forces deployed around the globe is rising. Then again, I'm going to guess that you are some lefty pacifist, and thus only worthy of derision and scorn.
Pol Pot tried about as hard as he could to form a communist state. He managed to kill off about a fifth of his nation's people. He's the most damning indictment of Communism there is.
Well we were going to turn the YAL-1 into AL-1, and buy a few more of them, but this wonderful thing called Obama showed up and *poof* changed the program back into an R&D one from a procurement one. All hail Obama, king of the idiots!
Update: I looked at Postal's 'Work' and it conisted of taking public source images, and puting cross-hairs at the center of them. Yeah, let's ignore the fact that the cameras are fixed, and the missiles and interceptors are moving in a three dimentional volume, because then we couldn't lie so easily!
Postal is a known lier. and thus anything he says can be ignored automatically. He's known for listening to briefings, turning around and saying the exact opposite, and then demanding that someone prove him wrong. Missile Defense works. It worked in the 1960s, and it works today. Anyone who says otherwise is either a lying bastard (like Postal) or uninformed.
Yeah because those thousands of radiological detectors in and around ports don't exist.
I don't have clearance either (just an educated layman), and I seriously doubt that people with clearance would venture into this debate.
Except decoys and other countermeasures don't work. We (the US) have had the sensors and computers to differentiate between real RVs and decoys, because, unless the decoy has the exact size, mass, and thermal signature as the real thing, we can ignore it. How we can is by tracking it on radar (a less massive RV wouldn't react the same to the Earth's mass, that is it wouldn't fall so fast, due to less inertia to punch through the atmosphere). And Thermal properties are important because the electronics in nuclear devices are sensitive and like to be kept in a nice stable temperature range. (Major source for the above paragraph is B. Bruce-Briggs' work "The Shield of Faith").
As for MIRVs, any public time-lapse photographs, you will see that the individual RVs are released sequentially, not all at once like you see on TV (source - MX missile test photographs at the National Museum of the United States Air Force).
And yes, the minor course correction features of modern RVs to allow for some accuracy adjustments. This allows us to use smaller devices, which fits with the policy of not directly harming civilians (as codified the various Geneva Conventions), but not letting civilian casualties stop us.
An ICBM is a suborbital rocket with a relatively huge payload capacity because it doesn't need to carry its warheads all the way up to orbital speed, and it doesn't have to waste payload mass on landing structure like heatshields and wings. You can carry a hell of a lot more tricks for dodging countermissiles on an ICBM than you can with this toy shuttle's payload bay.
Wrong. An RV (Re-entry Vehicle) comes in on a mathematically fixed path (that's why it's called a BALLISTIC MISSILE). The minor course correction ability that they have is to improve accuracy. Besides, Even SPARTAN (LIM-49A) and GBI have the range to hit the warhead bus before discharge of the warheads. Plus ICBMs don't have the energy you think they do.
I got mine using a photo ID (state drivers license), birth certificate, Social Security Card, and alternate photo.
It's called a Passport.
Someone is also forgetting the Avenger Systems that the Army deploys all over the east coast. It's easy to make a head-on intercept with a Stinger.
Yes, because a supersonic thermal bloom won't attract the attention of NorthCom, who won't vector in some fighters with look-down-shoot down radar (like F-15Cs and F-22s) to kill the thing.