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Posted on 09/30/2013 7:33:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ridiculous.
. . an even more attractive target.
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“Ridiculous.”
Says you. Get real. Stop being so arrogant as to think you know it all and know better than the experts.
On February 21, 2008 at 3:26 am (UTC) the USS Lake Erie, a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, fired a single SM-3 missile, hit and successfully destroyed the satellite, with a closing velocity of about 22,783 mph (36,667 km/h) while the satellite was 247 kilometers (133 nautical miles) above the Pacific Ocean.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-161_Standard_Missile_3#Anti-satellite
RPGs and anti-tank missiles negate-defeat armor these days. These 13 billion dollar aircraft carriers travel in “armored” carrier battle groups that today there are many RPG equivalents to take them out. The Chinese and Russians have missiles of various kinds that will waste or render inoperable these 13 billion dollar battle wagons. And they will distibute these missiles to their proxies
Russian sunburn missile ranks high on the list of “rpgs” that will easily nullify these aircraft carriers
The SS-N-22 Sunburn: Iran’s Awesome Anti-Ship Missile!
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A hit that took major reprogramming and setting up the right conditions. Not anything at all like hitting missiles at will.
That satellite was traveling several thousand miles per hour *faster* than ICBMs travel.
And it was intercepted in Space.
The software enhancements to hit it back in 2008 are now standard issue.
Naval SM-3s have been able, proven, to knock out ICBMs and satellites in Space since 2008.
So for more than the past 5 years, aircraft carriers have been protected from nuclear-tipped ICBMs.
exactly.....and considering by 1960 we had developed the Davy Crockett...nukes are probably the size of cell phones nowadays.
First time I heard about the Davy Crockett, although I had seen photos of 155mm nuclear artillery.
According to Wikipedia, “Davy” yielded at least 10 kilotons.
Think Tim McVeigh's Hertz truck blowing up next to your tank.
Ouch!
Also according to Wiki, it had a manual altitude setting that was selected right before launch.
Just noticed your reply.
Water is roughly 800 times more dense than sea level air, so I wondered if that would produce 800 times more heat at the same speed.
Of course, water is a much better heat sink than air, so you would have to factor that in, too.
I'm going to wake up my 12th grade physics teacher and ask him to do the math!
Whoops!
I meant 10 tons.
NOT 10 kilotons.
CHECK OUT PROJECT ORION.....the nukes where made as small as softballs.
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