Posted on 04/05/2017 7:06:21 AM PDT by rktman
The commander in charge of the nation’s nuclear forces on Tuesday warned that the U.S. needs to modernize its nuclear forces in the face of adversaries’ advancing capabilities.
“At a time when our adversaries have significantly modernized and continued to upgrade their nuclear forces, nearly all elements of the nuclear triad are operating beyond their designed service life,” Air Force Gen. John Hyten told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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With Navy pilots “on strike” due to “sick air supplies”, this isn’t a great time for us to need tactical capabilities from Syria to NK.
Translation = hold on to your wallet.
Even then, type training takes place independently of basic flight training and is not affected in any way by the current oxygen system issue.
Honestly, taking the B61s off our carriers was stupid. Every Carrier battle group needs to have a dozen dial a yield B61s. Much safer than NATO bases in F***KING TURKEY, Greece (former WSA), Germany, and Italy!
Good to know I am not the only one saying this.
There is no credible countermeasure to our ICBMs or SLBMs yet - at least in the open press. Bombers are more about saber rattling than an actual capability - although they’d work in a pinch.
We need to get working on maneuvering RVs, which the Russians are already deploying.
We also need to get back a capability of making new weapons. Right now we don’t have the means to manufacture the plutonium “pits” that are the heart of thermonuclear weapons.
I would also advocate resuming underground testing once we’ve produced new (probably W88) warheads. Computer simulations are no match for actual testing.
F/A-18 pilots are reporting the same issue.
They recently flew three pilots off a carrier so they could undergo treatment in a decompression chamber.
“Computer simulations are no match for actual testing.” WTH are you talking about? Computer models have been proven to be absolutely precise in the field of climate change/glowbull warming/3 day out forecasting. Why shouldn’t they also work for nuke simulations? /s.
I’m thinkin’ we need to bone up on intercept capabilities.
Yes...and do some nuclear engineering while we are at it, say buy building an updated nuclear -engineered SUPER Panama Canal through Nicaragua via something like Operation Plowshare
Besides I believe we have run out of locations at the Nevada Test Site to do underground tests. A satellite view on Google Maps shows the subsidence craters, and the fracturing goes a bit beyond the craters. An underground test will contain most of the fission products, but note, I said most, not all. They do leak some into the atmosphere.
The Sedan test was a proof of concept for such engineering. It turned out to be quite dirty.
Seems to me a hypobaric chamber would be used for decompression issues and not hypoxia. Hypoxia is usually self remediating if O2 is returned.
I dreaded the annual altitude chamber certification because of the mighty headache to follow.
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