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Trident II D5 Successfully Launched in Two-Missile US Navy Test
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Posted on 12/08/2006 6:59:03 AM PST by MARKUSPRIME
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To: MARKUSPRIME
I wouldn't doubt if we could drop them INTO an enemy silo.
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posted on
12/08/2006 2:06:49 PM PST
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DCBryan1
(Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Execute Scum & Pit Bulls.)
To: MARKUSPRIME
117 consecutive successful test launches since 1989Oughta make China/Russia think three times!
Mike
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posted on
12/08/2006 2:10:12 PM PST
by
MichaelP
(Success is a product of perserverance)
To: DCBryan1
You know what scoots me. We need to resume underground testing. I don't like the idea of testing new warheads by computer. Plutonium pit reliability has always been a bugaboo with me, and I would be rather comfy if we'd shake a few people up with reliability testing.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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posted on
12/08/2006 2:10:28 PM PST
by
section9
(Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Jesus is Coming. Everybody look busy...")
To: Ramcat
Different test...the one that failed was a anti-missile missile fired from a surface ship....(USS Lake Erie, an Aegis cruiser).
To: section9
I'd prefer resuming atmospheric testing - in the form of launching a Dyson Super-Orion loaded with Thors into orbit before the Chinese who have no Political Correctness compunctions against atmospheric tests do so ...no 'Pearl Harbour UP' in 2041 please.
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posted on
12/09/2006 4:51:07 AM PST
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FYREDEUS
(FYREDEUS)
To: painter
24 x 7 = 168 warheads
They are also variable yield weapons. Each one could be able to be cranked up to 1.2 MT = 1,200,000 tons of TNT. The instruments of Armageddon or the US's Death Star.
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posted on
12/09/2006 4:58:15 AM PST
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DarthVader
(Conservatives aren't always right , but Liberals are almost always wrong.)
To: DCBryan1
I wouldn't doubt if we could drop them INTO an enemy silo.
Unfortunately, that silo will probably be empty or fake. What good is damaging their second strike if our population has been reduced by half or more with their first strike? You have to have a counter-population strike first and then counter-force with what is left over. That goes four times with China.
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posted on
12/09/2006 5:30:59 AM PST
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UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
To: MARKUSPRIME
One of my navy friends calls them the flying dildo's of doom. I kid you not. :) I've heard that same label applied to Tommahawks, Standards, and Harpoons as well. It's an old navy joke, but still funny.
To: DarthVader
24 x 7 = 168 warheads They are also variable yield weapons. Each one could be able to be cranked up to 1.2 MT = 1,200,000 tons of TNT. The instruments of Armageddon or the US's Death Star.
Aren't there at least 7 trident submarines on patrol all the time? That should give mooslims some serious pause. Especially that nutjob in Iran. I would tell him "do anything stupid and the first one goes down the well your 12th mahidi is in"!
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posted on
12/09/2006 7:18:45 AM PST
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painter
(We celebrate liberty which comes from God not from government.)
To: painter
About eight missiles from one sub with all of its warheads cranked up to full yield is about all that it would take to make Iran uninhabitable for about 50 years.
I believe we never tell others how many of our subs are on patrol. Seven of them can do some serious damage and win wars by themselves.
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12/09/2006 7:23:09 AM PST
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DarthVader
(Conservatives aren't always right , but Liberals are almost always wrong.)
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