To: Froufrou
Tomahawk is an all-weather submarine or ship-launched land-attack cruise missile...
He lost all credibility right there
7 posted on
03/29/2007 11:35:29 AM PDT by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: Robe
They will also launch from B52's.
20 posted on
03/29/2007 11:40:21 AM PDT by
66-442hot
(It isn't smart to kill the golden goose........)
To: Robe
BINGO!! A Tomahawk is a land attack missle. As a 22 year Navy veteran, there is NO WAY the crew of a ship would keep quiet about shooting down an airliner...
To: Robe
Yea the Tomahawk reference blows this all to he!!. There are many reasons why that would never happen, but for one thing, a Tomahawk is the size of a telephone pole and almost impossible to miss by many witnesses (not to forget the entire crew of a ship).
50 posted on
03/29/2007 12:24:13 PM PDT by
RDTF
(They should have put down Barbarella instead of Barbaro)
To: Robe
That is the first thing I noticed. It is like the tv newsreader that calls every rifle an "assault rifle".
To: Robe
Tomahawk is an all-weather submarine or ship-launched land-attack cruise missile... He lost all credibility right there Ditto. His 747 likely flies faster than a Tomahawk which is designed to hit land based targets, not aircraft.
90 posted on
03/29/2007 2:08:40 PM PDT by
Ditto
(Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
To: Robe
Thank you Robe. Who shoots a T-hawk at a "target drone"?
147 posted on
03/30/2007 4:34:27 AM PDT by
ryan71
(You can hear it on the coconut telegraph...)
To: Robe
Tomahawk is an all-weather submarine or ship-launched land-attack cruise missile...He lost all credibility right there
That was my first thought... Aren't Tomahawks only used against stationary targets, and guided by an inertial guidance system? And don't they get their target coordinates just before launch? I'm pretty suer that they don't have any sort of target tracking system. That would mean that a Tomahawk would never be launched against a moving target.
More importantly, as you stated quite succinctly, it's NOT an anti-aircraft missile! It's a ground attack weapon! For goodness sakes, Tomahawks are designed to carry nuclear warheads!
Mark
149 posted on
03/30/2007 4:56:21 AM PDT by
MarkL
(Environmental heretics should be burned at the stake, in a "Carbon Neutral" way...)
To: Robe; Hal1950
While I am no expert on weapons I don follow them. I have never heard of a Tomahawk with ANY active tracking capability, did I miss something? Now if you tried to fire one in a manner ballistic you would have to be one heck of a shot.
225 posted on
04/05/2007 6:33:18 PM PDT by
mad_as_he$$
(The road is long and the path is difficult, the reward is worth it.)
To: Robe
264 posted on
04/14/2007 8:50:51 PM PDT by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric cartman voice* ?I love you guys?)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson