antiterror13
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Jeff, with all due respect , would you also consider "Israel nukes" is also not complete, unfinished and untested project ?
Modern Carrier Battle Group..Strategies and Tactics
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Jeff, with all due respect , would you also consider "Israel nukes" is also not complete, unfinished and untested project ?
Yes...I would. The Israelis however have never indicated that they have such weapons. Never announced to the word that such weapons are operational. So, they have nothing to prove.
Now, the technology involved with producing a fission bomb, or even a fusion bomb, by Israel, North Korea, Iran, or anyone else, is not a new technology. It is a very well known, very well documented, and very well tested, technology.
The ASBM weapon is not. It purports a system that has never been put together into a weapon before. One that has not been tested or proven to date (unlike nuclear weapons). So the level of proof is going to be higher in such conditions.
A new weapons system that has never been tested is, like Occam's razor, a system that in all probability is not operational yet. People can decide for themselves.
Again, all of these types of scenarios, questions, etc. have been reviewed in the past. I have said my piece on this. No need to take it any further.
It is kinda repetitive hearing the it isn't operational mantra time and time again
Regardless, it's a "fleet in being" in that it extends a controlling influence.
Whether this forum believes it's operational or not is pretty irrelevant. Billions of dollars is been expended on neutralising the "threat" dollars that could be spent on other things and capabilities so even if it's never fired or it doesn't exist it's having an effect on policy, planning and expenditure.
First of all hkbc, I have not been talking about what the "forum," believes. These are my own opinions and analysis, plainly spoken.
I think it is pretty evident that there is a healthy disagreement about this point on the forum.
2nd, what you just indicated is also precisely what I have been saying...and THAT, my friend, is not irrelevant at all.
Of course the downside of such a strategy is the very real chance that the US is in fact improving its defenses significantly and has the billions to spend to do so.
So, again, 'nuff said. We've covered this aspect once again...and I am sure, as we have in the past, in another six months or so I will feel the need to mention it once more.
Adieu.
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Jura The idiot
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Jeff, a moment ago I finished reading the exchange of opinions which had been posted since yesterday and let me just add that maybe something relevant (I mean some data, not just talking
will pop up earlier than you mentioned and then I believe it should be discussed here.
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Oh yes...most certainly.Jeff, a moment ago I finished reading the exchange of opinions which had been posted since yesterday and let me just add that maybe something relevant (I mean some data, not just talking
Please do not misunderstand. What I said was personal, not as an instruction to posters or the forum. I would not do that.
If there were an issue from the forum's standpoint, I would post it in bold blue as a moderator. None of this had anything to do with that.
Thanks for letting me make that clear.
My guess is that the USN may already have counter-measures to deflect/destroy the DF-21D. As I wrote in this blog before, there will always be the development of various weapon systems to engage opponents, and vice-versa, the opponents will develop countermeasures ........Experimentations & developments will continue et. al., until one country's military blows up its opponent's forces, but will vice-versa be targeted in reprisal blown up too. The final stages would be the use of nuclear weapons - no one wins then, as massive destruction would result.
Electronic countermeasures is the arm-chair general's God card... can't prove that it works, but it's existence through faith gives one hope.
Edit: If DF-21D can be neutralized via electronc countermeasures, what about DF-21A/C nuclear delivery device? Wouldn't that thereby call into question China's effectiveness of second strike capability as a whole if DF-21 series can be so easily compromised?
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