LOL. The fact that BOTH Russia and China have a much larger missile defense system then does the US means nothing to ppl like you. Amazing.
This system is of little value to missiles that are launch in the middle of Siberia or China.
A drone at 50-70K can be looking down when it launches the missile. It is easier to catch the missile when you are well above it, then when you are below it.
Most of our current bombing is surgical strikes in pakistan. These are all being done by drones that holds 1-2 bombs (the X-47 holds 2 JDAMs, while the B-2 holds 8 and other loads as well). Generally, they fly overhead looking for a target on the ground and then strike. However, a number of these are from spies that are operating inside of Pakistan. Regardless, drones currently do not do carpet bombing, which is what B-52, B-1, and somewhat B-2 can do.
Ahhh. So, lets see. We had our World Trade Center loaded with innocent civilians destroyed by a bunch of conservative nut jobs, and almost to a tee, the world agreed with our invading Afghanistan. Note that Afghanistan != Iraq.
Now, you suggest that America should attack an even larger target, also loaded with innocent civilians and you think that the world would just look the other way. Really?
Seriously, why would you want to attack innocent ppl? Do you think that American forces agree with attacking innocents? Have you ever served?
I don't think so. My guess is that we will instead see us develop the B-48/BWB as a drone bomber. Possibly even as a drone and tanker cargo craft. It really makes sense to use drones for carrying bombs, cargo, and fuel.
The B-1B flies at 725 knots, while the B-52 is at 560. Less than 50% faster.
However, a Bone's radius is around 5000 km, while the Buff's is around 7000 KM.
The real advantage is that a Bone's payload is almost double what a Buff's is (120K vs. 70K lbs).
But as to the area, nope. Buff has the advantage. And considering that the Bone is expected for nukes, we would not really like one shot down over Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Iran. As it is, China has stolen far too much of our tech.
Nope. Remove the flight crew. Drones will do this work. I would not be surprised to see the BWB/X-48 be developed and then used for such a mission. The advantage is that it would require a fraction of the fuel, while being able to carry a bigger load. Add a small band of drone fighters around it and issues solved.
It will not need to. At this point, we will no doubt be making heavy use of drones. My guess is that within 10 years, most of our bombing runs will be via drones.
Few scientists in there. Mostly engineers. And most, if not all, of these astronauts are well known in the republican world. I would guess so are the others.
these are just 2, but I have to be elsehwere. Cunningham Chapman
Basically, the republican/neo-cons have jumped from saying that there is no global warming to now saying that it is not a big deal or that man does not cause it. I have to wonder how many of these signers claim that earth is only 6000 y.o. or that evolution does not occur. Sad, back when the republicans were republicans and not neo-cons, they actually used logic. I guess that what Goldwater feared, has come true.
The amount of money going into earth science, let alone AGW, is trivial compared to to human launch and deep space missions. So, basically, you have a none issues.
America just dropped further on the anti-corruption list. Looks like another judge has been bought by MS. As I recall earlier, a fool was gripping that MS is unfairly singled out by media. Yet, here is MS getting an American judge to prevent Motorola from exercising their legal rights in Germany. Sick and Twisted that judges can be bought so easily.
Do not even have to be liberal to watch CNN. I like to balance it with BBC as well as Al Jazerra. Both seem to have good info that we miss here. And faux news is like reading national inquirer or pravda. All have humorous points, but nothing is close to accurate.
Possible. To be honest, I suspect that Texas would gladly give them a permit to launch 365 days/year. No doubt that SpaceX wants to do a number of launches. I suspect that once they are launching an FH every couple of months, they will go ahead and develop the FX/FXX. That would allow them the opportunity to increase the tonnage while lowering the costs.
I am hoping that Bezo will consider working with musk on this. It would be useful to all to increase our flight rates at the major launch sites. That lowers the costs for all.
In fact, it is many of the neo-cons that are hard at work at opposing private space. That includes the likes of
Hutcinson(R-TX), Croyn(R-TX), Shelby(R), Wolfe(R), Hatch(R), Coffman(R), etc.. The new round of republicans are torn on this, but the older neo-cons within the republican party are working hard to kill off private space. The reason is that neo-cons currently control the pubs, but also many of them are from areas that represent Boeing, ULA, ATK, L-Mart, Grummun, etc. In fact, it was the republican controlled house that gutted private space funding, but the dem controlled senate restored part of it. The dems wanted it all restored, but the senate pubs (esp. those above) fought against it.
I suspect that you are mistaken about Bezo buying land. It was theorized in various places that the land being investigated was either musk or bezo, but this would appear to be it. Personally, I am surprised that Musk is not working with Bezo on this.
Actually, F1E was stopped to focus on F9, FH, and Dragon. Unlike companies like Boeing, ATK, ULA, L-Mart, etc, SpaceX has limited money. They HAVE to make things work on fixed budgets.
they are claiming only 12 launches with 2 being FH. Seems crazy. I would think that they would want to allow at least 2/month.
Likewise, I am wondering if they approached blue origin and seen if they want to launch from there as well. If Blue Origin will do launches from there, then hopefully, the neo-cons like Hutchinson and Croyn will reconsider trying to stop private space. As it is, I am sick and tired of the neo-cons pushing a communist approach to launch when we have a nice cheap alternative in private space. It is sick that these neo-cons put their elections ahead of the needs of the nation.
I would like to see us send missions to mars, but include a nuke. Once arriving at Mars, send the nuke to the far side and blow it. Yes, I am well aware that we are part of space treaty. However, at some point, we need to test our nukes. It is foolish to not do so.
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Personally, I think that was a mistake. China is still very much a threat. In fact, I always thought it was a mistake to scrap SAC.
Ouch. You should be modded up.
LOL. The fact that BOTH Russia and China have a much larger missile defense system then does the US means nothing to ppl like you. Amazing.
This system is of little value to missiles that are launch in the middle of Siberia or China.
Can a guided missile loiter at 50-70K undetected by enemies for 24-48 hours?
A drone at 50-70K can be looking down when it launches the missile. It is easier to catch the missile when you are well above it, then when you are below it.
Gates tabled the ABL for a time. This might be what did it in. Or perhaps he was hoping to improve lasers or even railguns.
B-1s are no longer equipped to carry nukes.
ouch. All of them? When did that happen?
Yeah, I know. But as I grew up around B-47s (the original atomic aircraft), others called them Buffs (big ugly FAT fuckers).
Most of our current bombing is surgical strikes in pakistan. These are all being done by drones that holds 1-2 bombs (the X-47 holds 2 JDAMs, while the B-2 holds 8 and other loads as well). Generally, they fly overhead looking for a target on the ground and then strike. However, a number of these are from spies that are operating inside of Pakistan. Regardless, drones currently do not do carpet bombing, which is what B-52, B-1, and somewhat B-2 can do.
Ahhh. So, lets see. We had our World Trade Center loaded with innocent civilians destroyed by a bunch of conservative nut jobs, and almost to a tee, the world agreed with our invading Afghanistan. Note that Afghanistan != Iraq.
Now, you suggest that America should attack an even larger target, also loaded with innocent civilians and you think that the world would just look the other way. Really?
Seriously, why would you want to attack innocent ppl? Do you think that American forces agree with attacking innocents? Have you ever served?
I don't think so. My guess is that we will instead see us develop the B-48/BWB as a drone bomber. Possibly even as a drone and tanker cargo craft. It really makes sense to use drones for carrying bombs, cargo, and fuel.
The B-1B flies at 725 knots, while the B-52 is at 560. Less than 50% faster.
However, a Bone's radius is around 5000 km, while the Buff's is around 7000 KM.
The real advantage is that a Bone's payload is almost double what a Buff's is (120K vs. 70K lbs).
But as to the area, nope. Buff has the advantage. And considering that the Bone is expected for nukes, we would not really like one shot down over Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Iran. As it is, China has stolen far too much of our tech.
Nope. Remove the flight crew. Drones will do this work. I would not be surprised to see the BWB/X-48 be developed and then used for such a mission. The advantage is that it would require a fraction of the fuel, while being able to carry a bigger load. Add a small band of drone fighters around it and issues solved.
It will not need to. At this point, we will no doubt be making heavy use of drones. My guess is that within 10 years, most of our bombing runs will be via drones.
Few scientists in there. Mostly engineers. And most, if not all, of these astronauts are well known in the republican world. I would guess so are the others.
these are just 2, but I have to be elsehwere.
Cunningham
Chapman
Basically, the republican/neo-cons have jumped from saying that there is no global warming to now saying that it is not a big deal or that man does not cause it. I have to wonder how many of these signers claim that earth is only 6000 y.o. or that evolution does not occur. Sad, back when the republicans were republicans and not neo-cons, they actually used logic. I guess that what Goldwater feared, has come true.
The amount of money going into earth science, let alone AGW, is trivial compared to to human launch and deep space missions. So, basically, you have a none issues.
America just dropped further on the anti-corruption list. Looks like another judge has been bought by MS. As I recall earlier, a fool was gripping that MS is unfairly singled out by media. Yet, here is MS getting an American judge to prevent Motorola from exercising their legal rights in Germany. Sick and Twisted that judges can be bought so easily.
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Do not even have to be liberal to watch CNN. I like to balance it with BBC as well as Al Jazerra. Both seem to have good info that we miss here. And faux news is like reading national inquirer or pravda. All have humorous points, but nothing is close to accurate.
Possible. To be honest, I suspect that Texas would gladly give them a permit to launch 365 days/year. No doubt that SpaceX wants to do a number of launches. I suspect that once they are launching an FH every couple of months, they will go ahead and develop the FX/FXX. That would allow them the opportunity to increase the tonnage while lowering the costs.
I am hoping that Bezo will consider working with musk on this. It would be useful to all to increase our flight rates at the major launch sites. That lowers the costs for all.
In fact, it is many of the neo-cons that are hard at work at opposing private space. That includes the likes of Hutcinson(R-TX), Croyn(R-TX), Shelby(R), Wolfe(R), Hatch(R), Coffman(R), etc.. The new round of republicans are torn on this, but the older neo-cons within the republican party are working hard to kill off private space. The reason is that neo-cons currently control the pubs, but also many of them are from areas that represent Boeing, ULA, ATK, L-Mart, Grummun, etc. In fact, it was the republican controlled house that gutted private space funding, but the dem controlled senate restored part of it. The dems wanted it all restored, but the senate pubs (esp. those above) fought against it.
I suspect that you are mistaken about Bezo buying land. It was theorized in various places that the land being investigated was either musk or bezo, but this would appear to be it. Personally, I am surprised that Musk is not working with Bezo on this.
Actually, F1E was stopped to focus on F9, FH, and Dragon. Unlike companies like Boeing, ATK, ULA, L-Mart, etc, SpaceX has limited money. They HAVE to make things work on fixed budgets.
However, you are correct in your last paragraph.
Unlike OSC, SpaceX does not make heavy use of other nation's parts. He is making his locally. So, going with internationally source is not a big deal.
they are claiming only 12 launches with 2 being FH. Seems crazy. I would think that they would want to allow at least 2/month.
Likewise, I am wondering if they approached blue origin and seen if they want to launch from there as well. If Blue Origin will do launches from there, then hopefully, the neo-cons like Hutchinson and Croyn will reconsider trying to stop private space. As it is, I am sick and tired of the neo-cons pushing a communist approach to launch when we have a nice cheap alternative in private space. It is sick that these neo-cons put their elections ahead of the needs of the nation.
I would like to see us send missions to mars, but include a nuke. Once arriving at Mars, send the nuke to the far side and blow it. Yes, I am well aware that we are part of space treaty. However, at some point, we need to test our nukes. It is foolish to not do so.