It'd sure scare the heck out of me:
Posted on 04/11/2017 6:49:12 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
Naive.
Yup. Use up the old stuff.
That's probably already offending a bunch of Native Americans but...
PC name changes can be tricky;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNkMLRJJHWw
Note: that was supposed to be film critic Rex Reed. Also the new mascot on the can changed from an American Indian chief in a full feather headdress to an man from India in a three piece suit.
The Navy is currently wrapping up the procurement cycle for the Block IV Tactical Tomahawk missile. In 2019, the service will conduct a recertification and modernization program for the missiles reaching the end of their initial 15-year service period, which will upgrade or replace those internal components required to return them to the fleet for the second 15 years of their 30-year planned service life.The current Tomahawks are going back in the shop for a round of maintenance plus upgrades to their sensor and control electronics. Plus Raytheon still has the ability to make more.
And Indiana!
I propose the next generation of missile be named the “Double Bacon Deluxe”.
“The enhanced TACTOM (Tactical Tomahawk) modernization program will incorporate an all-weather seeker into the Tomahawk Weapon System Baseline IV. The seeker, coupled with mid-course in-flight target updates, will provide the missile the ability to strike a moving maritime target,” the Navy Tomahawk Program Manager, told Scout Warrior last year.The Navy’s 2017 budget request included $439 million to develop and integrate the software and hardware for this advanced Tomahawk modernization program.
“Development of enhanced TACTOM modernization, which integrates seeker technology and processing capability to the missile, is scheduled to commence in FY17 (fiscal year 2017) with a projected Initial Operational Capability in FY22 (fiscal year 2022),” the official added. “These modernization kits include a seeker with an associated data processor, cables and harnesses which will be integrated into the TACTOM All-Up-Round missile.”
Using internal funding, Raytheon has developed and tested a so-called “active seeker” engineered to better enable the weapon to more quickly find, track and destroy moving targets.
Had a helicopter named the Comanche (RAH-66).
And the U.S. Army asks native American tribes to name helicopters.
AR 70-28, dated 18 June 1976, specifies that “Army aircraft should be given the names of American Indian tribes or chiefs or terms. The name should appeal to the imagination without sacrifice of dignity, and should suggest an aggressive spirit and confidence in the capabilities of the aircraft. The name also should suggest mobility, agility, flexibility, firepower and endurance.”
Cultural appropriation of Kevin Bacon, who is offended at his own name.
Call em “Mother in Law” ..... those would be scary.
I wonder how my to senators will react to the jobs lost in MA because of this?
It'd sure scare the heck out of me:
That's why a Texas Full Moon is called a Comanche Moon because they would always come from surprising angles at suprising times when everyone was resting for the night, in the dark of the night.
All Army helicopters are named after indian tribes.
We outta use them all. We have many targets in the mideast deserving of them.
Improve on 59 of 61 successes of a very complex and multifaceted system of which one element is the Tomahawk?
probably being replaced with the Peace Pipe Missile.
Perhaps it was a good way to get rid of some missiles.
Are they going to unload some more on the fat little psycho in N Korea?
The manufacturers discard the tooling jigs and fixtures once the build contracts dry up. It is better to make new devices rather than retool to make the old ones.
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