Posted on 08/16/2022 3:19:13 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
he Air Force on Tuesday said it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) nearly two weeks after postponing the launch amid increased tensions with China over Taiwan.
The unarmed Minuteman III, which is capable of holding a nuclear payload, was launched at 12:49 a.m. Pacific Time from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., with its reentry vehicle landing roughly 4,200 miles away near the Marshall Islands, according to a statement from Air Force Global Strike Command.
The statement said the test demonstrated U.S. readiness and reliability, as well as the “expertise of our strategic weapons maintenance personnel and of our missile crews who maintain an unwavering vigilance to defend the homeland.”
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World War IV gonna be so much fun...
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“The unarmed Minuteman III, which is capable of holding a nuclear payload”
>>> “The Minuteman entered service in 1962 as a deterrence weapon that could hit Soviet cities with a second strike and countervalue counterattack if the U.S. was attacked.” <<<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-30_Minuteman
So, we have been patching up, rebuilding, “boosting,” and re-naming the same rockets in fixed silos since 1963...
Meanwhile, our potential adversaries have all of their many new classes of ICBMs on MOBILE launchers.
Geez a whiz....
See 3.
Nutz I missed it.
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Hope our D5s are modernized
Why not? It has worked for the B-52.
I worked Minuteman for 9 years while in the USAF and the reliability has been phenomenal. It is getting old and the LGM 35 "Sentinal" is on the drawing board. It will replace the missile in the same launchers currently used for Minuteman.
When I got out of the USAF I went to work with Martin Marietta on the LGM 118 Peacekeeper (M-X) program that was a very capable system (CEP in your living room type accuracy) that could use mobile launchers.
Congress really s#!t on us with that one. It was a great system and the dims killed all attempts to really make it a viable and ultra survivable system. They sold out to the "peace at any price" crowd. It also wound up being based in former Minuteman launch Facilities before it was prematurely retired.
As far as Russian hardware...you see the products in the current action in Ukraine. Not impressive. The Chinese are also on a learning curve that shows they have a ways to go before they pose a threat to a hardened target at intercontinental range.
They have been continuously updated and upgraded.
They’ll still get to their targets and go BOOM!
What more can you expect?
We still fly the early 1950s B-52.
We have a very wide dispersal of nuclear weapons and platforms. The B-61 Mod 12 bomb is our latest upgrade and can be carried by multiple aircraft platforms such as B-1, B-2A, F-15E, F-16C/D, F-16 MLU, PA-200, F/A-18 Hornet (Navy carrier), A-6 Intruder, F-35, and B-21.
BTW, the largest Air Force in the world is the US Air Force.
The second largest?
The US Navy.
4X the aircraft of USSR, er, I mean Russia and Red China.
What’s the current status of the B83?
How close can a CVN battle group get to mainland China (or Taiwan) or Russia before it’s targeted by steerable land, air and ship-based mobile hypersonic ship-killer missiles?
Asking for a friend.
(It’s not the 1930s, AB. Not by a long shot. Back when Americans proudly thought “the Japs” were cross-eyed morons who could only try to badly make copies of cheap toys, that broke after a week of playing with them. How did that work out? Please read the link.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_Prince_of_Wales_and_Repulse
“They have been continuously updated and upgraded.
They’ll still get to their targets and go BOOM!
What more can you expect? We still fly the early 1950s B-52.”
Good grief. You make my case, and you don’t even realize it.
NOBODY is putting their first-tier ICBMs in fixed silos, not for 30+ years. They are for first strikes only, or they are dead. Big craters. As for “early 1950s B-52s?”
OMG...oh my goodness. You sound like an 1890 Sioux Indian Chief telling his braves that the new Ghost Dance will cause the bullets of the invading blue coats to pass through them like water.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ghost-Dance
Please see 14 and 15.
Who will sign the order to lock, load and shoot? No, Who is on first. I don’t know...3rd base!
Difference in expected use. We have a mass attack response. No need for mobile. Our ICBMs are also first rate and reliable with long range. You squids have the mobiles.
We sure do live in interesting times
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We were also told the Iraqi army was among the largest in the world and battle seasoned and had the "elite" republican guard, ready to have the streets flowing in blood.
Our intelligence community hasn't gotten anything right since before the Bay of Pigs. The media trumpets every doom and gloom aspect they get or imagine.
Very few people even have any hands on experience with C-C-C or know anything about our SIOP plans. Everyone else is either guessing or shooting from the hip. The average guy on the street has no clue what TOT or MRT options means in the ICBM world.
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