Obama to Kill Tomahawk, Hellfire Missile Programs

[ElFenix]

Can you say that you are also skilled enough to bulls-eye womprats with your T-16?

have you ever seen a womprat? they move in a really predictable pattern and are ridiculously easy to take out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvKaGRwEZBs

 

[zinfamous]

a mon calamari cruiser is worth blowing up but a planet is not

I don't understand this line of argument. The question was what would win in a Deathstar vs Borg Cube battle.

I'm talking about what these ships can do. It doesn't make sense that the Deathstar would blow up a planet as a strategy for defeating the Borg Cube, or to demoralize the Borg collective.

 

[zinfamous]

have you ever seen a womprat? they move in a really predictable pattern and are ridiculously easy to take out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvKaGRwEZBs

man, those were some of my favorite games on SNES.

 

[IronWing]

you are bringing up a highly monetized cruiser with a small gun in comparision to a battleship with 16 to 18 inch guns?

A Yamato class space battleship with wave motion gun will take out an Iowa class battleship and the entire state of Iowa in a single shot. Surface ships are obsolete. Space carriers equipped with dual wave motion guns, landing capabilities, and flight decks (in space!) put the Yamato class to shame.

 

[norseamd]

I don't understand this line of argument. The question was what would win in a Deathstar vs Borg Cube battle. I'm talking about what these ships can do. It doesn't make sense that the Deathstar would blow up a planet as a strategy for defeating the Borg Cube, or to demoralize the Borg collective.

fine

i was just commenting that the whole idea of using the death star to blow up planets was not worth the planets themselves

 

[norseamd]

what was the new hope game where you started on overhead view and where either walking around or driving a hovercraft

 

[zinfamous]

fine

i was just commenting that the whole idea of using the death star to blow up planets was not worth the planets themselves

I see what you're doing. You're trying to pull a Texashiker via obfuscation!

 

[Pens1566]

what do you mean?

Aside from sea to sea engagements (maybe), the Zumwalt fills more roles with vastly smaller crew and much more precision. Surface engagements are a thing of the past. You can't hit what you can't see, and it will hit you well before you're even in range.

 

[rommelrommel]

what is the model of missile that they are developing for long term replacement

Cruise Missile XR (Extended Range)

What a creative name, thanks Obama!

 

[IronWing]

The Emperor is assimilated, game over. But who wins, really?

 

[norseamd]

Aside from sea to sea engagements (maybe), the Zumwalt fills more roles with vastly smaller crew and much more precision. Surface engagements are a thing of the past. You can't hit what you can't see, and it will hit you well before you're even in range.

you can reduce the crew requirements of a battleship also.

a lot of the fuss over retiring the battleships actually has to do with shore bombardment

also i want to confirm this. is it true that aircraft carriers have little space for command and control equipment. they have tiny islands and are full of deck space so this might some sense

 

[IronWing]

Aside from sea to sea engagements (maybe), the Zumwalt fills more roles with vastly smaller crew and much more precision. Surface engagements are a thing of the past. You can't hit what you can't see, and it will hit you well before you're even in range.

I see a Star Trek movie in the future for the Zumwalt.

 

[norseamd]

Cruise Missile XR (Extended Range)

What a creative name, thanks Obama!

a tiny footnote in the wikipedia article

figured it was just an upgraded version of the tomahawk

 

[UberNeuman]

In the rush to judge the OP, we've overlooked the most important question: "What does God need with a starship?"

 

[Pens1566]

you can reduce the crew requirements of a battleship also.

a lot of the fuss over retiring the battleships actually has to do with shore bombardment

also i want to confirm this. is it true that aircraft carriers have little space for command and control equipment. they have tiny islands and are full of deck space so this might some sense

I'd love to see the proof or reasoning behind this. They're behemoths that require a huge amount of human resources to operate. Even with the 80s retrofit, the crew was like 10x what a zumwalt will need.

 

[IronWing]

In the rush to judge the OP, we've overlooked the most important question: "What does God need with a starship?"

I never saw the movie. Why did God need a starship? Use spoiler tags in case there are folks still wanting to see the movie.

 

[zinfamous]

I never saw the movie. Why did God need a starship? Use spoiler tags in case there are folks still wanting to see the movie.

Isn't that what

Spoiler

Contact

was about? What a wretched let-down.

 

[ElFenix]

also i want to confirm this. is it true that aircraft carriers have little space for command and control equipment. they have tiny islands and are full of deck space so this might some sense

i don't know why you would think this.


there's no reason that CIC has to be in the island, and a lot of reasons why they shouldn't. they're usually buried somewhere so that they're difficult to take out.

 

[norseamd]

I'd love to see the proof or reasoning behind this. They're behemoths that require a huge amount of human resources to operate. Even with the 80s retrofit, the crew was like 10x what a zumwalt will need.

they did it with the next generation aircraft carriers

not saying you could do it with the iowa class battleships

we are talking about a 21st century designed battleship class

 

[norseamd]

i don't know why you would think this. there's no reason that CIC has to be in the island, and a lot of reasons why they shouldn't. they're usually buried somewhere so that they're difficult to take out.

but they also need room for all those jets

remember reading it somewhere on some military site

might have been a battleship proponet

still any one ship class is not better than any other

a battleship would still serve a useful role in a navy

 

[OCGuy]

what is the model of missile that they are developing for long term replacement

Next gen missle tech is inside the Black Budget for a reason.

 

[feralkid]

I never saw the movie. Why did God need a starship? Use spoiler tags in case there are folks still wanting to see the movie.

No one wants to see this movie.

 

[Lifted]

We have to make cuts somewhere to pay for welfare. Can not raise taxes on fortune 500 or people like Warren Buffet. So lets just cut national defense.

Oh brother. 60% of your federal taxes goes to the war machine. Have to make the cuts somewhere.

What the hell do we need these missiles for anyway? We have nukes. A lot of nukes.

Or maybe you're more worried about our ability to continue protecting the old "American Interests".

 

[Agent11]

I never saw the movie. Why did God need a starship? Use spoiler tags in case there are folks still wanting to see the movie.

Alien entities claiming to be god were fairly common in TOS...

 

[Pens1566]

they did it with the next generation aircraft carriers

not saying you could do it with the iowa class battleships

we are talking about a 21st century designed battleship class

You can do anything you want with a platform that doesn't exist. I choose the death star. I win.