Posted on 04/11/2017 6:49:12 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
rail guns and drones.
I thought I had read some articles from several years ago about the Tomahawk being phased out. Now I will have to research for what I thought I read.
Wrote “Buy Ratheon” yesterday...a few times. Looks like folks did.
“Next Generation Land Attack Weapon”
NGLAW. Catchy. Will it meet with American Indian approbation, though? “NG” could upset Vietnamese Americans. Gotta tread lightly when naming weapons. There is zero room for cultural appropriation.
What do you do with 4,000 outdated Tomahawks? Imagine a situation where we would need to use half of that supply in a short time.
In the 1991 Iraq War we fired about 600. In the second Iraq war when we invaded, we fired about 900. Interestingly, there have been a number of times since when we have launched salvos of Tomahawks at specific targets, much like we did against the Syrian airfield the other day. It seems we launch them pretty often in salvos of 20 to 50 at a time.
It is an interesting weapon that I am glad is not pointed at me or my peeps.
You hear that Syria and North Korea? The Tomahawk Missile is going away, so get ‘em while they’re hot!
It concerns me that they know this missile has limited capabilities at this point and they do not expect to have a replacement for 10 more years.
How about Azrael?
Aren’t all capabilities limited?
A lot of the ordinnce used in Iraq was not replaced.It was on the shelf.
Just because the name is racist!!!!
With the future S.A.M.enironment missiles like the TLAM are going to have to be designed so they are stealthy as well as intelligent.
What goof is a weapon if it can’t penetrate the Air a Defence System?
There goes the Apache helicopters too... racist!!!!
Buying Machete missiles, like the m*zzies use to chop heads off? or is that cultural appropriation?
What’s going on here is admirals and generals making sure they have plenty of money making opportunities after they retire and get jobs at defense contractors.
It still works, let’s spend billions to replace it.
With the money they spend designing, testing, tooling up to build something new, they could buy tens of thousands of them.
Hmmm Scimitar?
Quantity has a quality all its own. ~ Joseph Stalin...
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