National missile defense for Israel is a THAAD-level system, because that’s the size of the country.
What the US has in fact done globally — by doing the difficult, expensive upfront work of networking C2I, sensors & systems from North America, to the seabased X-based radar, to individual maneuver ships — exceeds…
Nuclear winter models were never real science — they were meant to exaggerate the effects in order to push an anti-nuke agenda, one model, e.g., which assumed a uniformly-flat Earth on the globe. (not like flat-earth society, but no hills, no valleys, no mountains)
Scientists have always had their own biases, that was…
W’s action or lack thereof has
1) nothing to do with Trump
2) exonerates Obama of nothing.
Magnificent red herring.
Truly weaponizing space may or may not happen in our lifetimes, and if it were, I’m not sure Joe Q. Public will hear about it.
What I’d like to see is a new-build hypersonic aircraft throwing HIBEX... DOWN.
And the F-22 was mothballed in such a manner as to be able to be put back into production — in 2009. Connexes supposed to be full of spare parts wre empty.
Besides the fact: %100 of the engineer data is.... 80's vintage crap.
Considerable effort would be required just to bring it up to a reasonable, modern standard…
Great idea from 30 years ago (when it lost to the F-15E); from now, we probably wouldn’t see IOC for 10 years.
There’s only so much money for every separate platform; different platforms also represent differing spare parts & logistical back ends and cut into the available USAF manpower pool.
Alaska: Polar interdiction of Bears & Blackjacks.
It’s current future is a glorified missile boat.
How did I miss that gem?
Which article?
Dashcam fisheye FOV’s neuter your sense of speed and what looks safe.
Came here for Holy Grail references. Leaving happily.
Don’t need icebreakers when the poles are melting; drill, baby, drill.
The US Army hasn’t shot down a $200 drone with a Patriot missile, not according to your own article, nor any other covering the story.
The heavy lifting of the US Navy are fighters & the carriers which operate them.
MAD worked because the actors were rational.
But nothing about ballistic-missile dynamics forced people to slow down; quite the opposite it is the 16-22 minute flight time which creates the “one flies, they all fly” rule.
BOMBERS force people to slow down; BALLISTIC-MISSILE DEFENSE literally affords one the ability to…
... the defenses are SPY-1 Aegis on escorting ships.
Jobs are a very real consideration but keeping the industrial base intact is the fundamental reason, IMO. The jobs are incidental but of particular concern to lawmakers.
A consistent theme I’ve seen across the entire internet whilst debating military hardware, especially intersections of American and foreign equipment, is that foreign equipment works at brochure face value; and a corollary that extreme skepticism is reserved for American equipment.
Besides the awful tendency to burn/throw turrets, and kill crew like clockwork.
