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Anon · 04-15-2005, 15:37 PM

"The easiest methods are the most likely. Why spend billions developing an ICBM when you can simply sneak your nuke into some US port? Such an attack has the added benefit of being difficult to trace back to the culprit."

Because the DPRK is not pursuing a container ship bomb, they're pursuing ICBMs.

It is your position that just becasue something is hard to stop, that we should not try???

"1) Nuclear powered bomber - Pluto project. If this plane ever flew, the radiation from it's exhaust would have killed more than its payload."

We flew a nuclear powered aircraft i believe. I don't recall it killing anyone. Regardless, it was just an R&D program, and was not based on a RFP(Request For Proposal) from the US military.

"2) Dyna-soar. Aptly named, this was intended as a sub-orbital nuclear bomber."

It was just a proposal. There was never a RFP issued by the US military calling for a sub-orbital bomber that i know of.

"3) B70 Mach 5 nuclear bomber (cancelled after USSR deployed high altitude SAM)."

He said FAILED technology. The B-70 worked fine, it was cancelled for operational reasons.

"4) Spartan-Sprint ABM (one base deployed, shut down 24 hours later)."

That was a policy decision, not a failure of the technology.

"5) B-1 Bomber (deployed even though it's electronic counter-measures suite proved to be totally inadequate in meeting performance goals)."

The B-1, while a hanger queen, has been succesfully used in combat on myriad occasions. HARDLY what one would call a failure.

"6) Star Wars ABM. Tens of billions, no deployment."

SDI was just an R&D program. No RFP was ever issued by the US Military for any specified system. The SDI program also helped to massively spur the development of lasers. The whole reason you have DvD players today is because of the work done on starwars.

"These are just some of the hilights in the strategic systems. We all know of failed conventional systems (Osprey, DIVAD, etc, etc, etc, etc)."

Osprey is not cancelled, it's probably going to be deployed.
DIVAD was a poorly executed design, but it was NOT a failure of the base technologies.

04-15-2005, 15:37 PM	#21 (permalink)
Anon New Member Join Date: 08-03-03 Posts: 0	"The easiest methods are the most likely. Why spend billions developing an ICBM when you can simply sneak your nuke into some US port? Such an attack has the added benefit of being difficult to trace back to the culprit." Because the DPRK is not pursuing a container ship bomb, they're pursuing ICBMs. It is your position that just becasue something is hard to stop, that we should not try??? "1) Nuclear powered bomber - Pluto project. If this plane ever flew, the radiation from it's exhaust would have killed more than its payload." We flew a nuclear powered aircraft i believe. I don't recall it killing anyone. Regardless, it was just an R&D program, and was not based on a RFP(Request For Proposal) from the US military. "2) Dyna-soar. Aptly named, this was intended as a sub-orbital nuclear bomber." It was just a proposal. There was never a RFP issued by the US military calling for a sub-orbital bomber that i know of. "3) B70 Mach 5 nuclear bomber (cancelled after USSR deployed high altitude SAM)." He said FAILED technology. The B-70 worked fine, it was cancelled for operational reasons. "4) Spartan-Sprint ABM (one base deployed, shut down 24 hours later)." That was a policy decision, not a failure of the technology. "5) B-1 Bomber (deployed even though it's electronic counter-measures suite proved to be totally inadequate in meeting performance goals)." The B-1, while a hanger queen, has been succesfully used in combat on myriad occasions. HARDLY what one would call a failure. "6) Star Wars ABM. Tens of billions, no deployment." SDI was just an R&D program. No RFP was ever issued by the US Military for any specified system. The SDI program also helped to massively spur the development of lasers. The whole reason you have DvD players today is because of the work done on starwars. "These are just some of the hilights in the strategic systems. We all know of failed conventional systems (Osprey, DIVAD, etc, etc, etc, etc)." Osprey is not cancelled, it's probably going to be deployed. DIVAD was a poorly executed design, but it was NOT a failure of the base technologies.