why do you think Jordan needs better weapons? other than to defend them self's from AK-47 slinging rag-heads they have no enemy's. they have a well trained 150K size army that is way bigger and better trained than any jihad organization that would want to overthrow the Jordanian government. if there a need for better…

you have to know the politics behind the fact that Jordan doesn't have many precision guided bombs. they may want to buy them and they may be willing to pay to get them but the US wont sell them to Jordan because Jordan is an unstable government that resides near Americas only real ally in the middle east, Israel.…

it there a reason this is a jet and the C-130 a prop? whats the advantage of a jet other then speed?

it would cost 10,500,000 per metric ton of ordinance to have them in space. the price per kilogram for sending things into space is about 10,000 dollars and even more if you want the weapons to be in high orbit. the weapon system would have to be large to accommodate all of the functions you would need it to do.…

and is made in the US.
israel is trying to find something to replace the saar 5 as its to small for the mission israel needs it for. they were considering making a stretched saar 5 that could accommodate more weapons.

i don't think the LCS lacks armor, one cruise missile can take out anything that size no matter what armor you have. the problem is more that it doesn't have active protection that can protect it from multiple missiles.

that's why the Israelis decided at the end not to buy the LCS. they wanted a corvette/frigates that had more capabilities then the Saar 5 corvette. at the beginning of the talks with the united states it was thought that they could add such weapon system to the LCS but later it was decided that it would be to costly…

I think the US should stop subsidizing the European defense! as long as the European countries spend less then the US on there defense i don't see why the US should still keep forces there. if you look at the military spending per GDP you will see that the US spends around 4% of there GDP on defense while in Europe…

it isn't simpler to knock out the railways, what you are saying is akin to knocking out the sea to take out the subs.
Russia has an extensive railway network that traverses all of Russia. and no one strike can take out the whole network before the railway missile launchers launch there missiles.

ill get excited when the thing starts working, there are so many promises that i stopped getting excited when i hear of a news release. hope it works though.

why don't they use drones for the task they excel at? they can loiter for hours and can rain down bombs/missiles at extreme accuracy and for cheaper then fighter jets and helicopters.

merkava 2 tank

I'm insulted to read that you wrote that a tin can of an APC is a tank!!!

its not about making a perfect defense system its about increasing the odds that the round wont penetrate. true it probably is harder to defeat a KP round but if you plan on making a system that can defeat all threats 100% of the time then you get the F-35 type of program that is to expensive and take to much time to…

the problem is range and lethality.
swarm boats would have small guided missiles and rockets that have a range of 5+ kilometers and some of them are suicide boats. these boats may be armored to an extent.
a m-240 has a range of 800 meters at the maximum above that you cant expect to hit and destroy something reliably…

Having the tank 100% electric won't work but what will is having it with a hybrid electric motor with a generator to generate power. They could do this right now with the current tanks, all they need to do is replace the huge gear box with an electric motor and the massive batteries with lithium batteries. One problem…