Some of the planned technologies for Kennedy and/or Enterprise are AA/AM laser cannons and a new technology called dynamic armor, where a small gap between the outer and inner armor is polarized with an electric charge which would deflect the plasma generated by a missile’s shape-charge warhead.

Two words: Solar Warden

I wouldn’t totally write off the navies of the world. All those ballistic missile subs have to do as a last resort would be to launch with their current targets. It’d be something like this:

Before you go writing us off, I suggest you read Harry Turtledove’s three “World War” series. But what resource here on Earth could they want that they couldn’t find elsewhere in our system? The answer is US. Whether it’s as slave labor, cannon fodder in their interstellar wars of conquest, or because we’re REALLY…

The biggest problem is lack of ASW aircraft. The S-3 had a patrol time of about 10 hours and was equipped with pretty much everything the P-8 has. The SH-60 only has half the endurance.

If the new Russian air defense systems are as good as they claim to be, what are they worried about?

Yes we do. It was a simpler time, when we went to bed at night hoping that the Soviets/Russians were’t crazy enough to start a nuclear war, while they did the same. Now we have to worry about radical stateless entities that blow things up at random and fly airliners into buildings and are virtually unstoppable because…

All this is about FISSION reactors. Locheed Martin has been working on a FUSION reactor that would meet the specs.

But the Army Corps of Engieers DID have a reactor barge they used in the Panama Canal.

Even if they manage to get every bomber and land based ICBM they will lose at least 384 cities/bases, and that’s only with one Ohio SSBN in each ocean.

Truly the best way to use one in the US is wrap it in several layers of fire-proof material, “pull the pin”, toss it into Old Faithful, and drive like hell.

You find this shocking? Remeber, this is a society who rather than fight for themselves created a whole group of “disposable” people. And what happens to THEM after the war?

Why not since Putin was bragging about an operational Russian version earlier this year?

But given the type of wars we have been fighting, do we need another ultra-expensive aircraft that needs three computers just to get out of the hanger? If it’s to replace the B-52, what we need is a simple, hardy, “bomb truck”, not the B-2 V2.0. And just remember, this is the FOURTH attempt at replacing the BUFF.

The resolve of the American public was VASTLY different then. From December 7th 1941 to the end of the war 15 brand new BATTLE carriers were built, along with NUMEROUS smaller escort carriers and the battle groups to protect them.