That I 100% agree with. The most credible threat we have is that we can destroy an enemy without mass casualties.

8 Minutes. You think were are going to send a nuke in 8 minutes? That’s the flight time of a DF21. You think they can get full release authorization in 8 minutes on anything short of a full ICBM spread?

A nuke is a wide area weapon. The DF21D is a precision guided weapon. Why would you kill the carrier with a nuke if you can kill it with a conventional weapon? Conventional is much cheaper! Why risk loosing a nuke or two when you can ripple off a dozen conventionals and have exactly the same kill?

Wow, we spent a whole crap ton of Patriot missiles on rockets aimed at dirt! I wonder why that was... maybe because a city or a base was between it and the dirt? And what was on those bases and cities... people! Lots of them! What could have been on the tips of those rockets... VX, Sarin, and whatever else we taught…

We very much DO give the benefit of the doubt to ballistic missile launches.

Nope. There are no radioactive craters in Iraq from when Saddam launched against our land bases in Saudi Arabia, or against our close friend Israel. There is no such thing as a nuclear strike against a ballistic launch.

The fact the we HAVE had ballistic missiles launched at US forces in the field, from an enemy SPECIFICALLY KNOWN TO HAVE WMD EQUIPPED MISSILES! At our allies who supply us with strategically important oil!

Well, context matters I would think.

The T-50 is so stealthy you will NEVER see it operationally deployed!

You know what the most interesting US/ROK strategy might be? Invade the Chinese and Russian border zones first. Basically the strategy is to place an anvil force that would strike just behind the borders and work in a few miles, setting up refugee camps inside the borders for the inevitable flood to come. Then the…

One of the big defence companies is looking at making a C-130 into a drone aircraft carrier. I’m really interested in how they do launch and recovery, as computer guidance would be much better than slow man hands.

They are already behind you.

Nope, I’m calling BS on the “Seoul will be leveled by artillery” meme.

HellPhish89 mentioned that 138 women had gone through some specific pretraining prior to this school, but I had not seen anything about this yet. If there was pretraining that would be news to me.

I had not heard that before - do you have any links or sources on that? I’m very interested in the whole process they went through. It was my understanding from different articles (DefenceOne) that they didn’t get prior training or mentoring.

Sure, rates are low now. The will go up somewhat in the future, as now women will know that that particular option is open to them and they can start preparing for it in advance - instead of having it thrust on them as these 19 women did.

While a laser would be very effective against aerodynamic targets, I don’t see them being very effective against ground targets. Why? Even ISIS has the perfect laser countermeasure: Snakes. Those kiddy fireworks that are legal everywhere, where you light a disk and it grows a column of foamy black ash. Cover your…

A mirror is not as reflective as you think. A chromed or otherwise mirrored surface would just take a millisecond longer to burn through.

There were men who were recycled through the same phase too - many more men than women repeated each phase.

An article on Defense One made mention that some of the difficulties these women were facing in this school were not physical skills, but leadership skills. It was pointed out that the men who were taking this KNEW they could and would take this well in advance, so they had ample time to prep and have good mentoring.…