We got out of the treaty, and then built this previously banned new missile in about 3 weeks?
Now the sophistry makes more sense.
“built this previously banned new missile in about 3 weeks?”
It is not a new missile, it is the widely fielded Tomahawk cruise missile. They are just mounting it on a ground vehicle as a launcher, to be able to drive them around, so they are harder to find. Also, they can be deployed/proliferated quickly - no base to build, just drive them off a plane or ship.
We will likely hear about the ballistic missile in another month or two. They could just put the Pershing 2 back into production.
Both the Tomahawk and Pershing can carry a conventional or nuclear warhead - and look the same n the outside.
Even more stupefying is the Left will now call the “Tomahawk” missile “RACIST”.
I’d call it “ Tommy the Destroyer” after our beloved “Conan the Destroyer”. More descriptive of its power.
I got Texas Instrument's Semi-Automated Test Stations for the Harpoon's Final Tracking Radar (they built the Radar and the Test Stations) operational for them.
That was in 1976 at their plant in Garland, Texas.
Under the treaty you could engineer and build it but not test it. The Russians built and tested. Thus Trump wisely pulled out of the treaty.
Actually it was a very good treaty that Russia violated and destroyed by their actions and not ours.
Which sophistry are you talking about?
You think we didn’t know others were developing such missiles and that we knew that we also needed to keep up “behind the scenes” to keep from committing suicide by neglect?