Posted on 02/28/2006 5:31:29 PM PST by Piefloater
The UASF is buying 2400 missiles, the range is not available. Sorry.
No problem, I thought that range was a wee bit much. Any idea if the tactical tomahawk is up and going?
I'm surprised that anyone takes Indonesia seriously. Their Armed Forces are even more corrupt than the country over all, and that is saying a lot.
However, they are stratgically spread out over key shipping lanes and could raise a fuss with some of their own missiles, if they had them.
It could be they are posturing to buy some of their own as way to gain military and diplomatic leverage in the region.
No, we're not.
Australia's state governments with the support of the Federal government did impose stricter licencing procedures on the ownership of all but basic firearms following the Port Arthur massacre. But Australians who were willing to get the necessary new licences, typically had few problems keeping their firearms at that time. In a collossal waste of money, the government purchased many unused but legal firearms from gun owners who chose to voluntarily surrender weapons in exchange for cash. A small number of people, often those with old criminal convictions which did not prevent them having basic firearms licences but did prevent them having higher level licences, were forced to surrender their more powerful weapons. Another small number had to surrender weapons which were not cleared under the new laws.
But many more Australians kept their firearms. And many more have purchased them in recent years. There are millions of legally held firearms in private hands in Australia. We're not disarmed.
The post-Port Arthur gun laws were wrongheaded and largely pointless. But they really didn't do that much damage, they just added a new layer of bureaucracy to an already top heavy administration.
Iran and China are the mostobvious reasons for this sort of strategic positioning. North Korea too and Pakistan too if Musharraf gets overthrown by islamists.
The Hornets have been carrying & launching the SLAM & SLAM-ER for years now.
Though there is nothing on the official range of the JASSM(or any other US weapon),some websites state it as being above 350kms(220 miles).
Note to self. Go out to garage look under F/18 wings, see if you notice big hangie thingies under them.
Stalin, the tyrant of Russia and savvy military marshal, observed that anyone intent on invading America with massive armies would be dismayed by the thought of 90 million snipers waiting for him. There are twice that number now. Any invading army would be decimated and made non-functional fairly quickly. They might push through to the Mississippi on the initial attack, but they would suffer the same fate as the German panzers at Stalingrad: they would cease to exist.
Seems a similar fate awaits an army invading Australia.
The invaders might try entry through Alaska. Of the 600,000 population, half are retired military, only 100,000 are qualified sharpshooters but the rest are working on it.
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