Posted on 11/05/2018 12:17:49 PM PST by ETL
Spartan
There are currently 400 Minuteman III ICBMs sitting on Alert and ready to fly at a moments notice. Another 50 Launch facilities can be loaded and ready to go in a very short time.
“The old (obsolete?) Minuteman III missile had a re-entry speed of around 17,000 mph (almost 8 km/s)...
Fast missiles aren’t new.
“steering” ANYTHING moving at that speed isn’t done.”
Sure about that? Something tells me you are only guessing and have no credentials to make such a statement.
We do not have the capability with both the technology, coupled with the decision-making process, to intercept during the boost phase.
I know this, FRiend. 90 SMW.
Something tells me you are only guessing and have no credentials to make such a statement.
See #12
...until you find out that in such a situation the Metalstorm-like box will only have some of the first layer of rounds go even vaguely towards the target as the recoil will push it out of line. Remember, it’s only attached to a missile.
To be fair, we do if the enemy is stupid enough to drive the launcher onto the beach and launch it over the ocean with an Aegis BMD cruiser watching from international waters.
“So what’s your concern with my “credentials”?
Is it my years of service in missileering, or my multi-decade engineering career, or my PhD that you consider sub-par? You just don’t know me, FRiend.”
Don’t hide the above comments by sending them via FReepmail. That’s just creepy. If you’ve got something to say then publicly say it.
Total amateur nonsense. Since we do have maneuverable warheads, all you nonsense is just silly “look at me” attention seeking.
381st SMW, 321st SMW.
No interest in “hiding” anything, but I do choose what I share about myself.
This one’s a freebie though: I also am an honorable man. Too bad you aren’t.
Live and learn, I suppose.
Thank you sir, for your service and commitment.
“This one’s a freebie though: I also am an honorable man. Too bad you aren’t.”
How is anything I have done not honorable, Sunshine?
You tried to hide via FReepermail and I didn’t let you, so now you’re upset? Is that it?
Don’t try to BS on FreeRepublic. There’s far too many expert on here for you to get away with it.
True. But you might use an off-center recoil to position it for the followup shots and spray the area.
I sent you a greenmail to answer your question. It was a private response because I do not choose to boast about my accomplishments or my military service publicly. The fact that you confuse this with “hiding” tells far more about you than it does about me.
Nothing I said is untrue. I served in the United States Air Force, 90th Strategic Missile Wing (at that time) Frances E. Warren AFB, Wyoming. 12 years of my life, committed to the defense of this nation and quite a bit immersed in ICBM technology.
Since leaving the service, I’ve been an engineer in both title and in practice.
Also noteworthy, I do hold a doctorate degree, that I earned in 2009.
If this doesn’t please you, I don’t care. You are (in my humble opinion) a dishonorable piece of crap for taking this public, when it was clearly intended as an aside to the forum discussion.
Like I said, Live and Learn.
Also, don’t “warn” me about the experts on FR.... You don’t even know who we are.
“a dishonorable piece of crap for taking this public”
So, your supposed life is crap? OK by me, but I call BS to your entire story.
“Also, don’t “warn” me about the experts on FR.... You don’t even know who we are.”
It’s obvious you’re not one of those I referred to.
QED
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