mlmp08 posted:

THAAD shooting an MRBM dropped out of a C-17:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYr6hYVpxxw

Wingnut Ninja posted:

If by that you mean, is there a term for saying "an enemy plane has launched a SAR/IR/AR missile at you", then no. At least not in the ALSA brevity manual where Fox 1/2/3 are defined.

Well, I guess there's "Vampire" for a hostile air-to-surface anti-ship missile. But that's the only one that comes to mind.

Neophyte posted:

"2700 Hiroshimas - not great, not terrible"
- the ghost of Gen. Thomas S. Power

Kesper North posted:

Bunker oil, used for crude purposes.

glynnenstein posted:

Saudi Arabia has said they will obtain nuclear weapons if Iran does so.

quote:

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Back Hack posted:

One of the biggest threats to submarines are helicopter equipped with torps and sonar buoys. Giving submarines a relatively safe AA defense against them is a huge upgrade in a subs survivability in a wartime situation.

General Battuta posted:

Hello great thread. Speaking of cryptography and secret orders, I’m doing research for a novel and it would really help the Authenticity if I could include some fake message traffic, all formatted fancy and poo poo. Do any of you know what kind of message formats would be used *during* a nuclear strike? I’m talking after the EAM has gone out and everyone’s launching - the chatter you’d get once the balloon is up. Vintage formats are okay but 2010s era is best. Obviously this is the kind of thing that’s highly classified but maybe I can fake it

General Battuta posted:

Strings of brevity code are perfect! I don’t think you need to understand the message contents to get some eerie emotional effect.

Hauldren Collider posted:

Definitely not. Years of lead in Italy, FARC, half of Africa, the PLO, etc already laps any numbers the US supported and is barely scratching the surface

The US maybe supported a tiny handful such as the Mujahideen

Captain von Trapp posted:

I've never seen DoE classified information, but apparently unlike even the most secret squirrel DoD or IC compartments, DoE classification doesn't expire even in theory. It's pretty

drgitlin posted:

Because they stopped using lists of random words and had to get all Operation Super Extreme High Speed Low Drag Badass Killing poo poo Eternally because the point was no longer to obscure the project but to sound like a high-speed, low-drag, big-beard badass.

Guest2553 posted:

Don't leave out the people who drive them.

That Works posted:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32585/f-15e-strike-eagle-spotted-flying-with-an-inert-b61-12-nuclear-bomb-out-of-nellis-afb




No biggie just a mudhen cruisin around with a nuke.

Lou Takki posted:

Checks out, 80% of the time I spent working in the Navy was cleaning or chipping/painting until I put on E6.

Captain von Trapp posted:

I'm not sure it would even be that big of an inconvenience. Dump some shielding dirt around where you want the actual hole, keep it wet to mitigate dust, wear a respirator, do a bunch of horizontal drilling. Really drilling might be the one of the easiest single things to do safely on a radiation-contaminated site. Certainly easier than farming or living there.

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

This isn’t an original quote, but the day we understand that slide is the day we win the war.

n0tqu1tesane posted:

Have we talked about that time that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt leaked a letter to the press because a bunch of his troops were getting sick with malaria, and were at risk for yellow fever yet?

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2020/april/uss-theodore-roosevelt-commanding-officer-followed-example-colonel

Schadenboner posted:

I was thinking more new-construction/contemporary. You hear about how silent diesel engines are now and I was thinking towards a situation where that would be in an SSB, the only one I really came up with would be India/Pakistan (the only two nuclear powers with geographic continuity on a significant scale that I can think of). Because range isn't as much of an issue for those two countries (the "where" is probably always going to be the Indian Ocean).

Just a dumb thought exercise.

Captain Log posted:

I love cozy, enclosed spaces. I wish fallout shelters were still en vogue.

Scratch Monkey posted:

Blistex posted:

Maybe. . . and I'm going out on a limb here. . . but what if Trump's "17x faster" was just more verbal diarrhea on his part, and has absolutely no basis in reality?

Wingnut Ninja posted:

I love how the (literally) ultimate penaid is "set off another nuke", because in the cold war even problems with your nuclear weapons can be solved with more nuclear weapons.

Warmachine posted:

Plus, there's much juicer targets for nuclear weapons on the ground. Space is a weird and wild place to fight, and there's little point to investing the money to lob a nuclear weapon at something that can more cheaply be killed by a grad student's term project.