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New World Order Title: Military Drops Crazy ‘ICBMs vs. Terrorists’ Plan A few years back, the military came up with the bright idea of swapping out the nuclear warheads on some of America’s land- and sea-based ballistic missiles for conventional explosives, transforming city-obliterating rockets into so-called “Prompt Global Strike” systems capable of taking out terrorist targets anywhere in the world just hours from the word “go.” There was just one problem: The “strike-anywhere” missile was a nightmare for diplomats and lawmakers. Upon launch, a non-nuclear ballistic missiles looks the same as a nuke to other nations’ radars. There was no way Russia, China or anyone else would know that America was firing a non-nuclear missile to take out a terrorist camp — as opposed to, say, starting World War III on a whim. Proposals that the United States install special communications channels to alert nuclear powers in advance of any non-nuclear launch pretty much undermined the whole “prompt” aspect of the weapon. Now the Air Force thinks it has a solution that makes everyone — Congress, the State Department and the Pentagon — happy. The flying branch wants to ditch the ballistic missile aspect of Prompt Global Strike and replace it with a hypersonic glider air-launched from a heavy bomber, like any of the Air Force’s current non-nuclear cruise missiles. That way nobody can mistake the weapon for a nuke. Even though the prototype crashed during its first test flight last year, the Air Force is eying the Mach-20 Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle as the basis for the new strike missile. “Our focus is on boost-glide capabilities, including the Hypersonic Technology Vehicle concept,” Maj. Gen. David Scott said this week. “We have no plans for conventionally-armed sea-based missiles such as a [Navy] Conventional Trident modification or conventionally-armed ICBMs.”
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 4. Sounds like the missile builders wanted to find a post Cold War use for ICBMS to keep the cash flow coming.
#2. To: Godwinson (#1) . "post cold WAR" is still WAR. STRATEGIC NUKES never go out of style. But we are coming to the time of the TACTICAL NUKE. There is NO stopping it.
#3. To: Mad Dog (#2) This was not about nukes at all - just using the ICBN loaded with conventional warheads.
#4. To: Godwinson (#3) I posted it champ, I know what it's about. The nukes weren't going to be decommed were they? Just removed from BALLISTIC platforms swapped out for conventional warheads. The so called problem was that non-nukes could be confused with nukes, and so trigger auto responses applicable in defense against incoming BALLISTIC NUKES. AND escalation. We're trying to swat rats with sledge hammers. It's dumb. Mock 20 hyper-ram jet cruise? Light em up. See ya, wouldn't want to be ya.
Replies to Comment # 4. The so called problem was that non-nukes could be confused with nukes Bullshit! America is downsizing it's offensive capabilities. In other words, the Empire of the USA is retreating; it is broke.
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