1 posted on
02/27/2008 5:49:17 AM PST by
blam
To: blam
I saw this story a couple weeks ago. God bless our troops, changing as needed to overcome future threats. I am guessing none of these guys will be voting for Obama, since he wants to de-fund the military to the point where these guys would be operating in inflatable rafts with pea shooters
To: blam
Does the Ohio still carry D-5 missiles in the silos that don’t hold SBLMs?
The D-5, as I recall, is a very accurate, first strike weapon. Or at least, that’s the way the Russkies used to rate them.
3 posted on
02/27/2008 6:17:41 AM PST by
RexBeach
("Americans never quit." Douglas MacArthur)
To: blam; Travis McGee
To: blam
My personal opinion is that the SSGN conversions are stupid since they diminish part of the deterrence Triad. Just MHO.
7 posted on
02/27/2008 6:50:31 AM PST by
Virginia Ridgerunner
("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
To: blam
“...and a contingent of commandos ready to be launched onto virtually any shore through rejiggered missile tubes....”
Are these underwater vertical tubes are the horizontal tubes that would shoot these guys into the air? Really are these guys in some device that they are launched in? What kind of word is rejiggered. If I am launched out of a tube I would want it to be at least redesigned and would hold out for engineered.
10 posted on
02/27/2008 7:02:57 AM PST by
ThomasThomas
( John McCain a true BLUE conservative)
To: blam
CapTroopers ‘On the Bounce’!
11 posted on
02/27/2008 7:26:14 AM PST by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: blam
BUMP for our awesome military!
14 posted on
02/27/2008 10:26:13 AM PST by
prairiebreeze
("Mental institution Michael...think about it". -- FDT 2007)
To: blam
Argh, hate to admit it, but the USS Jimmy Carter was one of the first subs to get a similar makeover:
USS Jimmy Carter19 posted on
02/27/2008 8:21:46 PM PST by
yhwhsman
("Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small..." -Sir Winston Churchill)
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