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Posted on 06/23/2007 2:56:49 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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It seems what Jim Wolf doesn't understand, he turns into science fiction - idiot.
This is a good system, its neat too, well worth the investment.
It is frustrating though.
:)
OBTW - lets let the French have our tax dollars for tankers and ABL carrying aircraft. Forget about the American manufacturing workers - Keep the EU worker employed. Let’s outsource our journalism to Russia and China while we’re at it. ( or have we?)
I think people don’t understand that this weapon system can do far more more than shoot down missiles. We’re talking TOTAL AIR SUPERIORITY wherever its deployed. Just one of these babies can augment AWACS and fighters to completely change the balance of power in a theater of conflict. I wonder if any of the critics have had their bank accounts fattened by our enemies?
There are lots of neat toys out there :) Lots of work for Americans and EU folks alike.
I wish we could “beam” them all (lib journalists) to an alternate reality...
LLS
In 1986 I debated a leftist professor at San Diego State U on SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative, aka Star Wars) as a rep for Danny Graham’s High Frontier Foundation. I started laughing on stage when my idiot opponent said that Space Based Lasers could be used to “start massive forest fires in Third World countries”. I got up and said, “Yes, we want SBLs so we can burn their little grass huts down”. The audience, which was generally supportive of the leftist prof, started laughing at him as well. The guy was so incensed he almost attacked me physically on stage.
I would have paid to see that :)
The ray pictures have had the ray depictions cartooned in. The rays ordinarily would not show.
They are already in an alternate reality...I just wish they'd stay there and leave this reality alone.
Thanks for the article, that’s an awesome piece of aircraft there. I don’t understand how we can throw billions at Iraq and have to quibble about a few hundred million for an asset this impressive.
If it works, and everything I've heard through the grapevine is that it, well, doesn't, and isn't even remotely close to working.
Defunding it and giving money to stuff that looks like it DOES work makes sense.
It would work great on ground concentrations too....could it burn a hole through concrete reinforcement (Iran’s nuclear sites....nudge nudge...wink wink...if you know what I mean.....)
I actually got to see this aircraft several years ago wen my Aviation Maintenance club at my school went to Seattle to visit “the land of the silver gods.”
The theories behind it are quite sound. Missles in their boost phase are quite vulnerable due to all that fuel encased in a relatively flimsy container. This is why they want to destroy them on the way up - it’s so much easier. Think about it. Base a few of these in Iraq, a few more in Japan and S. Korea, maybe a couple in Poland...
How many years did it take to develop the nuclear bomb? The stealth aircraft? The tank? Each of these significantly changed war and the way that wars are fought or will be fought. This weapon will do much the same thing and we will have it first! :)
Ladies and gentlemen of FR...I give you the flying platform for the Battle ZOT...the EC-99 Viking Kitty.
That’s funny.
One possible option is that there is something better in the shadows. A very big project ($$$$) appears to sucking up Air Force R&D funding and it is not the F-22,35 programs. Also this week the NRO canceled the stealth sat program. There have been several notable programs canceled in the last three years. The AF has something up their sleeve. You can't swing a dead cat in DC without hitting an AF general. That means lots of programs to manage.
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