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Originally Posted by SeaQueen
The tactical Tridents will probably be pretty cool if they make it past Congress, but I suspect that in all likelihood, they'll probably turn out to be used in practice as extra long ranged Tomahawks than as the sort of "Osama is hanging out in the park, he'll be there for the next hour, go get 'em" kind of things they're advertising them as.
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I remember reading that one of the obstacles for convientional ballistic missiles was that it looked a lot like nuclear missile launches from orbital satellite perspective... so as the missiles fly countries all over the world would be officially freaking out not knowing whether its a nuke flying or not...not a good thing. That is, of course, unless the navy were to give all other countries an advanced warning before it fired, but that's impractical and defeats the "quick strike" mentality... better to not open up that can of worms IMHO.
If quick strike is what's desired, then the RATTLERS looks pretty interesting... and appears to be working nicely, just needs to be adapted to launch from specific platforms...
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/sto...2009026&page=1
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...ns/rattlrs.htm
Hystrike is along those lines as well
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...s/hystrike.htm
On a side note... :hmm: ...ge its really, really tempting to mod these missiles into the game as next generation strike missiles. Maybe a substitute for the TLAM in the LA and SW...