The Sprint used a 650,000 pound thrust first stage that burned for 1.5 seconds and then a second stage that would have the Sprint going Mach 10 in five seconds. To deal with 7,600mph at low altitude an ablative shield was designed. In the videos you can see that when the second stage gets going the entire missile…
Is America the one who chopped up the middle East after WW1?
To be fair, a lot of people died.
this is true, the Nazis would have taken over everything
If you don’t already read it, I’d suggest Tyler’s blog over at The Drive.
937 died in 2015 in Construction based jobs out of 6.7 million people. That’s a 1 in 7150 person killed in construction jobs. 8 per year in ship building with 110k people in ship building, that’s 1 in 13,500 killed in ship building. So it’s almost 2x as dangerous to be a land based construction worker than a ship…
Seventy-six people have died in the private shipbuilding and repair industry between 2005 and 2015, according to the report. And shipbuilders face an 80 percent higher chance of injury and illness than construction workers.
Cobalt SS
So, you want military to be completely transparent with its operations in the middle of a war?
Ever heard of “operations security”?
I miss the old jalopnik.
“very reminiscent of Nazi Germany,”Give me a break. This kind of rhetoric is what is actually dividing this country. I seriously doubt the person who said that was anywhere near Nazi Germany during WWII.
The idea that it would be suicidal to launch a second-strike on the United States is a non-sequitur, as the state must still exist in the first place to be capable of suicide at all; second-strikes are by definition from the grave. This is the whole principle of no-first-use; if you take first-use off the table, what…
Bingo. Everyone hears 260 warheads and thinks of destroyed US cities. But a first strike needs to knock out C&C and launch facilities, not civilian population centers. In the game of nuclear war, they have a decent deterrent. A first strike against the US or Russia would be suicidal and pointless.
We could border the safe zones with red lines. If Assad crossed those red lines, he’d be sorry.
Except during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing today he opened by saying he would cut excess spending where it’s needed, to free up more money for his goals. He specifically stated that he’s prepared to close military bases on US soil that aren’t necessary (which is always controversial).
NATO is a paper tiger. The United States military is what gives NATO any credibility.
As this article seems to be largely an attempt at defending the past administrations policy and damning the one that started 1 hour ago, I will only point out that, even as such, it is poorly thought out. One can basically stop reading after this early sentence “His coordinated efforts with the European Union to…
<If Russian troops can enter Estonia or Poland, in theory, why not Germany as well?>
Duh the song had lyrics! Lou Albano sang them best!
