This happened during Urban Warrior off the coast of Monterey IIRC. I was ashore at NPS as the Warfighting Lab was doing some early exercises thinking about the 3 block war. They were doing role playing at DLI simulating dealing with civil unrest etc.

It's you that's rotting... Maybe your just not built for this century.

How has the country been destroyed? The economy’s better than even mitt bragged about, oil Imports are down, clean energy is ascendant, there has been no large attack in the US, more people have healthcare, gun nuts have even more rights than ever, no new land wars, no Iranian nukes, etc.

Yes. Lets listen to the guys who decided that spending $5 Trillion and 5,000 American lives to accomplish nothing was a good idea. I take that back, it did lead to the creation of ISIS so I guess that’s doing something.

I mean, technically, yes it is still a missile just not one that's going to function properly. It's still a vehicle with a controllable trajectory designed to deliver a payload. Is a car no longer a car if you take the wheels off or empty the gas tank?

Definitely not. When Aegis was conceived in the late 60s/early 70s, ballistic missiles were blunt objects with inexact guidance aimed at fixed land targets, and not a threat to ships at sea. Besides, high hypersonic speeds and sub-orbital trajectories were way beyond the fire control and guidance systems of the time.…

Your amusingly under the impression that we have any say whatsofuckingever in whether they build nukes or not.

I have a friend who fled Iran during the fall of the Shah. He and his parents literally crossed the border to freedom with Iranian jihadists shooting at them.

yeah coordinated, F-117s tomorrow : )

I was a US Navy planning officer for the team that planned Senior Surprise at SAC HQ. The CALCMs were a “black” program at the time due to treaty limitations with the USSR on nuclear cruise missiles. We essentially weren’t allowed to have conventional CALCMs because of the way both countries counted warhead platforms.…

“Every Man a Tiger” by Tom Clancy/General Chuck Horner has a lot of good detail on how the air war was run. It does tend to be more “a day in the life of Chuck Horner” than details on strike packages though.

“The CALCM’s employment during Operation Desert Storm was limited due to the nature of its warhead and guidance system. The warhead’s limited ability to penetrate targets and the guidance system’s lower accuracy (compared with the Tomahawk’s) restricted the types of targets that could be successfully attacked. Even…

OPSEC, I would guess, given how close hold this was. A large flight of B-52s launching out Barksdale was (and I assume still is) not that odd. Any number of plausible cover stories could apply if anyone asked. Once you forward deploy them (especially with all that advanced ordnance) it’s not that hard to connect the…

Emissions are emissions. Fixed or mobile it doesn’t matter. If any enemy knows you have fixed SAM sites they whack them preemptively. If they’re mobile they just have Wild Weasels standing by waiting to kill them. Mobiles SAM units are also have very limited capabilities. If you want to deploy any serious SAM system…

Helicopters don’t fly, they beat the air into submission.

“Another plan had these operators laser-designate the sites for attack aircraft to strike. The General rejected these plans due to the inherent risk of ground forces being compromised by unforeseen factors.”

It’d be 50 MALD-Js and 20 JASSMs.

Hmmm... the sink rate is pretty high on final, and looks like he chased the wire as he cleared the tail as the sink rate went from 3/3.5 degrees to 5 suddenly. That looks like a 1-wire landing.

He’s a couple of feet off centerline. Just interjecting some humor folks. That’s tighter than a CAT III approach and hand flown to boot. I guess if you are out of range of a Bingo airport there’s no such thing as below minimums. That landing would even pucker my seat.