Syria Strike Puts Lockheed Martin's Stealthy New Missile to Test

Yahoo News linking to Bloomberg ^ | April 14, 2018 | Anthony Capaccio

[Elsie]

Trump's The Art of the Deal describes a stunt in which he lured Holiday Inn executives into investing in an Atlantic City casino by directing his construction manager to rent dozens of pieces of heavy equipment, in advance of a visit by the executives, to move dirt around on the proposed casino site, creating the illusion that construction was underway.[38]

[rlmorel]

Whatever else people think of him, he’s a fascinating person.

I read the book “Let Trump Be Trump”, and it had a great scene in it...I will have to try to do this from memory, but I think I can get the gist of it (note: I am certain I don’t have all the details right, so take it for what it is worth):

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After a campaign speech, there were two media people on his campaign, both women. One of the women was having relationship with a guy on their media team, and she was upset by a rough patch they were going through.

They two women were in the middle of an increasingly hot exchange (because the girl with relationship problems had skipped the speech) when Trump boarded the plane and passed them by. He asked the woman who had skipped the speech how she liked it, and she muttered se thought it was fine.

He didn’t say anything, and went over and sat down in his chair, picked up the newspaper which was customarily placed there at all times, and began quietly reading it.

Meanwhile, the exchange between the two women became increasingly louder and more combustible, to the point where everyone was looking on nervously, wondering what Trump was going to do.

He paused his reading as the level of the argument climbed to look over the top of his paper at the two volubly arguing women. He watched impassively for a few seconds, and without changing expression yelled out: “Catfight!”

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Now, I had to think about why that tickled me so much. I think it is because it is exactly the type of thing that me or people I know might do...and that is why it seemed so funny to me.

[Elsie]

;^)

[Monorprise]

I was reading a book about area 51’s history, and it seems rather apparent to me that.
The U.S. Government must have applied stealth technology to a lot more than just aircraft, helicopters, missiles, drones, and satellites.

Our enemies have also build advanced weapon systems if we went to war with any 1st world country our entire aircraft carrier fleet would probably sink fairly quickly. Our missile defense systems would be almost useless against weapons specifically designed to destroy them at great distances.
They may be very uses full against 2nd and 3rd world countries but in a real war they are liabilities, in such a war effective stealth will be the name of the game, and countering that stealth, as well as manufacturing large numbers of missiles and drones will be the arms race. (we must have a large manufacturing industry)

I suspect if they haven’t already both China and Russia are developing ways to quietly see right thou our latest stealth aircraft.
Developing such a technology and keeping it a secrete would be the greatest ace card in any major war. For it would render our entire defensive structure vastly out matched. For instead of numbers and performance we have thrown most of our resources into stealth. While they seem to be going in the other direction.
Without effective stealth the F35 is no match for it’s counter parts.

We are but one relatively minor technical revolution in detection technology away from being vastly out matched.

To the credit of the U.S. military they at least recognize the threat of the next space war and their overdependent upon satellite technology, Satellites despite being hard to reach are actually quite vulnerable, and China has a decade ago already demonstrated the capability to take them out. It’s hard to imagine Russia not having that capability. A broader buck shot thou much of space might disable much of the global network, and where that fails more low tech jamming or hacking technology is probably just as effective.

In the next major war, assuming we can agree to leave out nukes out we may lose almost as much due to our dependencies upon the satellites domestically. I for one think it might be worth investing in a more armored stealth satellite or moon base. That is much more difficult to reach by China or Russia.

All that said, given the effects of multi-culturalism, public indoctrination of onesided self-hate, and mass-assimilated colonization of the country, its unlikely the United States will survive the next century anyway.
We are already falling apart at an unexpectedly fast rate. It may be pointless to try and defend that which is already dying from internally inflicted wounds.

We may instead be wise to look to the only future we are likely to have in the presumption that we do break up that some part of our culture manages to also throw off the self-destructive attitudes of the last 80 years that have destroyed us and form a new country based upon the pre-1960’s values of the west. One that still has a birth rate capable of sustaining itself without massive immigration and cultural homogeneity as not to fragment and destroy itself as our current western culture has done so.

In such a future these new weapons are likely to be more the tools of the tyrants of the other lands to inhibit such freedom than the unaffordable tools to defend it. So on net we might be better off without the weapons. Ultimately freedom depends upon the willingness and interest of the individual in their own rights and mind. Not the power of the originated state to suppress or kill them.
Kf there is to be a 2nd revolution, and a rebith of freedom it will come from the indiviual and only if they are able to overpower the state.