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Who is that?
Who is that?
Do you perchance have a link? Search feature on this phone keeps dragging in stuff I specifically didn’t ask for.Well they don't get on the shortwave radio any more and tell the aircrews by voice to come back home! This was part of US cruise missiles for a long time, it often gave an extra hour to make a determination and the wave off signal sends it to a farmer's field to make a hole in the ground. A lot of these weapons are used in situations where this feature is useful and it is an encrypted key that probably changes constantly and is secure.
Tom cruiseWho is that?
I looked for the TomahawkDo you perchance have a link? Search feature on this phone keeps dragging in stuff I specifically didn’t ask for.
it looks like launch equals commit.I looked for the Tomahawk
Tomahawk Block IV introduced in 2006 adds the strike controller which can change the missile in flight to one of 15 preprogrammed alternate targets or redirect it to a new target. This targeting flexibility includes the capability to loiter over the battlefield awaiting a more critical target. The missile can also transmit battle damage indication imagery and missile health and status messages via the two-way satellite data link. Firing platforms now have the capability to plan and execute GPS-only missions. Block IV also has an improved anti-jam GPS receiver for enhanced mission performance. Block IV includes Tomahawk Weapons Control System (TTWCS), and Tomahawk Command and Control System (TC2S).[23][24][25]
Tomahawk (missile family) - Wikipedia
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Redirecting is aborting in many cases. For instance, US nuclear weapons are nominally targeted at the open ocean and target coordinates are loaded upon launch (takes a second or two), this is done to avoid accidents. If you can abort or recall a weapon like a cruise missile, one of the alternative targets would be a wave off or abort location in open country. They can communicate with them after launch and they fire them in tricky circumstances sometimes where wave off ability would be critical. Say a ship fired one at a building with 30 minutes time on target and the drone overhead showed a bunch of school kids coming out. They would hit the alternative target (abort) button pretty quick and a satellite will get to to the missile in a second or two.it looks like launch equals commit.
Tomahawk is being phased out for the stealthier LRSO. No idea what its abort options, if any.
There was mention of loiter and autonomous target upgrade. I saw nothing about receiving and responding to external signals post-launch.Redirecting is aborting in many cases. For instance, US nuclear weapons are nominally targeted at the open ocean and target coordinates are loaded upon launch (takes a second or two), this is done to avoid accidents. If you can abort or recall a weapon like a cruise missile, one of the alternative targets would be a wave off or abort location in open country. They can communicate with them after launch and they fire them in tricky circumstances sometimes where wave off ability would be critical. Say a ship fired one at a building with 30 minutes time on target and the drone overhead showed a bunch of school kids coming out. They would hit the alternative target (abort) button pretty quick and a satellite will get to to the missile in a second or two.
Tomahawk Block IV introduced in 2006 adds the strike controller which can change the missile in flight to one of 15 preprogrammed alternate targets or redirect it to a new target. This targeting flexibility includes the capability to loiter over the battlefield awaiting a more critical target. The missile can also transmit battle damage indication imagery and missile health and status messages via the two-way satellite data link.There was mention of loiter and autonomous target upgrade. I saw nothing about receiving and responding to external signals post-launch.
My bad; missed the “in flight”; that settles it.Tomahawk Block IV introduced in 2006 adds the strike controller which can change the missile in flight to one of 15 preprogrammed alternate targets or redirect it to a new target. This targeting flexibility includes the capability to loiter over the battlefield awaiting a more critical target. The missile can also transmit battle damage indication imagery and missile health and status messages via the two-way satellite data link.
Now since the satellite is circling the earth it will be in one of two orbits. Geocentric or lower earth orbit. Geo orbit has the satellite circulating over one target, going to have to go to a lower orbit to aim at another target. To do this energy would have to be expended to get it into a lower or degrading orbit. It will not be the case of just dropping the rod. on its own it would take a long time to drop out of orbit. If it is held at a lower orbit it will pass over different parts of the Earth but it will have to be continuously 'topped up" with energy to remain in its orbit. That would mean topping up the gas tanks with fuel. Also the thing would be easy to track and sending up a rocket to disable it is a possibility. That would send debris all over making a big mess. Probably easiest to destroy it as it is being built might be a better idea. Or once one nation starts building one then another can do the same, arms race in space.yeah but this uses kinetic energy......no fuel no nothing......it just drops from space
here, i've done a little bit of reading on it.....no fall out
These Air Force ‘Rods from God’ Could Hit with the Force of a Nuclear Weapon
These tungsten rods could hit a city with the explosive power of an intercontinental ballistic missile.www.military.com
Neither one of you has mentioned China. i'm wondering just what Xi would think about all this, what he might do about it?I imagine they would throw everything they had into Russia to neutralize nuclear threats, after an initial stealth strike, perhaps it would be coupled with a cyber attack on the command and control systems. Stealth bombers and fighters would be part of any plan to hit Russia with as much as we can as quickly as we can to prevent a launch and perhaps a ballistic missile defense system is a good idea too. From my understanding Russia has about 2000 ICBM big nukes on missiles and about 500 of those are at sea in subs and surface vessels, the other 4000 are tactical nukes, mostly in storage. So assuming the attack subs eliminate the Russian subs we would have to deal with around 1500 warheads, but they need to strike western Europe too. If they did strike them first with a stealth attack and say 100 got launched and say the had a 20% failure rate, 8 warheads each on a dozen missiles say. Manageable with an ABM system and perhaps fighters with ABM missiles over northern Canada, with a second line further south.
you think putin will honor a gentlemen's agreement? he exhales lies, as bad or worse than trump ever did.We all have a gentleman's agreement not to put nukes on cruise missiles.
A thousand-mile orbit is stable for centuries. It views a lot of terrain. The rod needs a delta vee of maybe a mile per second to deorbit and achieve considerable cross-range. The problem is that the carrier is likely not very stealthy.Now since the satellite is circling the earth it will be in one of two orbits. Geocentric or lower earth orbit. Geo orbit has the satellite circulating over one target, going to have to go to a lower orbit to aim at another target. To do this energy would have to be expended to get it into a lower or degrading orbit. It will not be the case of just dropping the rod. on its own it would take a long time to drop out of orbit. If it is held at a lower orbit it will pass over different parts of the Earth but it will have to be continuously 'topped up" with energy to remain in its orbit. That would mean topping up the gas tanks with fuel. Also the thing would be easy to track and sending up a rocket to disable it is a possibility. That would send debris all over making a big mess. Probably easiest to destroy it as it is being built might be a better idea. Or once one nation starts building one then another can do the same, arms race in space.
All great for the movies, not really practical. That is until we get to the point of mining space. Then just need the big ass engine and fuel to slow it down to drop it out of orbit.