Posted on 01/27/2015 11:24:25 AM PST by C19fan
The U.S. Air Force has announced its strategy for replacing America’s Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles—which have stood alert, awaiting Armageddon, for nearly five decades.
Making nukes is hard. But squeezing another multi-billion-dollar project into the Air Force’s already bulging budget is perhaps the bigger challenge.
We’re talking about the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent, an effort to replace the stockpile of Minuteman nuclear missiles Boeing built for the Pentagon back in the late 1960s.
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Cover for disarmament, I’ll bet.
Well round file the old ones, the economy will collapse and they’ll say, oh well...
Barack Obama is onboard the “ZERO” agenda to reduce nuclear arms to zero (starting with America’s).
He has also (in his first administration) made it clear that he will not use a nuclear response (even to nuclear attack). It’s off the table.
Watch out again Warthogs. And also, in this day and age, the ICBM deterrent should all be submarine based anyway.
The Air Force could have a few deliverables I guess, but this really should be an all navy game.
Maybe we could outsource it to the Iranians.
We had a replacement for the Minuteman III. It was called the Peacekeeper. It was taken out of service because of the START II treaty, which Russia withdrew from 9 years later.
...is there any government plan that’s NOT expensive?
just dump them from a plane over Iraq, Iran, Syria. problem solved.
One of his many acts of treason.
If they would save the money they blow on politically correct crap like the various heritage and pride month ‘festivities’.
If the Navy’s railgun technology advances sufficiently, it might be possible to use a similar “gun” to launch warheads from the ground. If the electronics and firing mechanisms within the war heads can be built to withstand the G forces, and if the units could be made small enough to be train mounted or perhaps even truck mounted, the ground nuclear forces would be next to impossible to identify and destroy.
"Cover for disarmament, I’ll bet." - gaijin
Disamrmament, yes, and redistribution to his friends ...you know, those "moderate muslims" at war which he and McCain keep yammering about.
I suggest we test a few of the nukes to see if they still work, by launching one each to Iran and North Korea.
Better yet, we could mail them to Iran.
Me bad
Barack is part of the movement to reduce our nuclear arsenal to ZERO. He long ago took nukes off the table as a response to anything that may happen to America.
He has indicated he wants a world without nukes but his policy on Iran shows that to be as much a lie as his statements about marriage only being something between a man and a woman “with God in the mix”.
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