“Made in China”?
Hey, the Taliban are fighting ISIS so get a two-fer...
http://www.afghanistantimes.af/isis-fighters-decapitate-10-taliban-in-nangarhar/
Cute, but it can’t take out Iranian nukes.
And our cowards in charge won’t develop the weapon that can.
Thanks for posting...good to know we still have something left to fight with after leaving most of our equipment on the ground in the middle east...getting a little tired of reading about all of these amazing weapons we have developed despite the fact we seem to refuse to use any of them to protect our own...
We launched 47 Tomahawks against ISIS in September last year. It isn’t clear if we’ve used any since then. Most of the attacks on ISIS are probably PGMs which cost far less than a Tomahawk.
While this is a good article, the author’s opening paragraph makes me wonder if he knows anything.
So, we spend a multi-zillion amount of dollars on a weapon system to destroy an ISIS ammo dump with a conventional explosive warhead??
Puhleez.
how many HE iron bombs and napalm bombs would equal the cost of one of these? I’d be more a fan of the 1000 flights of bombers flying over the middle east dropping vast amounts of HE and napalm over wide areas using carpet bombing techniques rather than more accuracy.
That seems like a very expensive weapon that will have marginal effect in just a conventional role.
I would however suggest it as a replacement for the cruise missile in the nuclear role, maybe a 500 kiloton thermonuclear warhead. This would be a strategic weapon that would be credible for several decades to come, if we were to produce it in that role.
Cruise missiles will need replacing in the coming years, and they have been proven to be vulnerable enough to get shot down by modern air defenses.
I doubt that will happen though. We seem to be on a path to unilateral disarmament through Obsolescence and decay. I bet the Russians and Chinese will find it useful though.
The Navy Tomcats used to have that capability. The Phoenix antiair missile could be launched from over a hundred miles out.