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Bunker-busting nukes on Iran - would they work? (pg. 2)
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| Dervish |
I can tell you exactly why this has happend (Blair removing support). Bush cancelled the JSF second engine and the US refused to share technology.
Blair tried playing the ally card and Bush shot him down (in other words Britain got snubbed...big style). That is exactly why Britains troops are now comming out of Iraq slowly and why the Iran support has dissolved.
EDIT: Also the whole system by which the jet flys is roll-royce technology, which was handed over in good faith and the US suddenly desides not to share, and not to buy the other engine.... dirty robbing... :toothless |
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| juzfugen |
| quote: | Originally posted by hardcore trancer
yup we know how effective and accurate they are.I mean look at Iraq barely no civillians were killed from the air strikes,only a few thousands were killed. :rolleyes: |
Unbiased link showing a few thousand civilians were killed due to airstrikes. Was there collateral damage? Yes but Im sure some of was due to Saddam's regime using human sheilds. If you look at the tonnage of ordiance dropped on Iraq along with the amount of collateral damage its truely amazing how accurate the US was in its targeting, especially compared to previous bombing campaigns.
But hey it's not like we are purposly targeting civilian structures that hold 3000 people or using poison gas on innocent civilians
| quote: | Originally posted by hardcore trancer
you are about to attack another country,at least learn how to spell its cities names.It is TE"H"RAN :o |
omg! omg! spelling nazi is the house last I checked I wasnt about to attack anything. Maybe if you had a valid counterpoint you wouldnt have to resort to childish ad hominem attacks, ohwell atleast you show your colors, better luck next time :haha: |
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| Sunsnail |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
"The Rods From God"
>SOURCE< |
that is cool technology, but I think it's even more dangerous than nukes |
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| Q5echo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sunsnail
but I think it's even more dangerous than nukes |
how so? if you don't mind me asking. |
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| Sunsnail |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
how so? if you don't mind me asking. |
It seems to me that the satellites are pretty safe from attack and sabotage. It also seems a bit harder to stop one than it is to stop a nuclear missle. |
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| Q5echo |
| oh! you mean more dangerous on the recieving end. gotcha |
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| Dervish |
From that "Rods from God" article:
| quote: | | Upon impact, the rod would be capable of producing all the effects of an earth-penetrating nuclear weapon, without any of the radioactive fallout. |
Now the context of the artice is destroying Irans NUCLEAR facilities..... now nothing I know (aside from nuclear bombs) creates fallout better than a reactor in meltdown so this is is going to be occur "without nuclear fallout" I don't know! :toothless |
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| Kapedan |
| quote: | Originally posted by hardcore trancer
What else can we expect from an uneducated yank like you? |
Yeah..your right..what do I know, I'm American :rolleyes: |
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| Sunsnail |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dervish
From that "Rods from God" article:
Now the context of the artice is destroying Irans NUCLEAR facilities..... now nothing I know (aside from nuclear bombs) creates fallout better than a reactor in meltdown so this is is going to be occur "without nuclear fallout" I don't know! :toothless |
Ehh... I didn't think of that :) |
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| ShadoWolf |
| quote: | Originally posted by MisterOpus1
So if this is indeed the case, what other options outside of a full scale Iraq-like attack do we really have? |
Targeted assassinations of the top leaders in the regime. |
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| Q5echo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dervish
From that "Rods from God" article:
Now the context of the artice is destroying Irans NUCLEAR facilities..... now nothing I know (aside from nuclear bombs) creates fallout better than a reactor in meltdown so this is is going to be occur "without nuclear fallout" I don't know! :toothless |
fallout is defined specifically by a nuclear explosion. damage from such a weapon may result in a subsequent meltown of a reactor (pressure vessel compromise) but even that would not qualify as websters definition.
then again i didn't grow up around Chernobyl either. so... |
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| hardcore trancer |
| quote: | Originally posted by ShadoWolf
Targeted assassinations of the top leaders in the regime. |
sorry but that wont work.you will create much bigger problems when you kill a leader of a country. |
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