Ah, what happens when each branch of your military is run like a separate, and competing, corporation.

But if you say that the defense budget is full of wasteful bullshiat, you're a Commie.

badhatharry: I thought only 2nd rate, almost bankrupt, backasswards communist dictatorships had their missiles on the backs of tractor trailers..........oh, yeah, nevermind. I guess we do need some of those.

So, you don't know what the words 'communist' and 'dictatorship' mean. Good to know.

"The Hard Mobile Launcher was judged too expensive during the largest peacetime defense buildup in history with the Soviet Union as an adversary. What makes the Air Force think a neo-HML will survive our budget-constrained, post-Cold War environment?"


Translation: Guys. GUYS, LISTEN -- Even the Teabaggers are gonna hate this shiat. Not gonna happen.

Good! This country doesn't spend nearly enough on the military and defense.

"This is nuts. They should just quit while they are behind."

LordJiro: But if you say that the defense budget is full of wasteful bullshiat, you're a Commie.

But I thought government spending created jobs. Isn't that what you liberals are always promoting, spending money extracted from hardworking taxpayers for whatever "important national priorities" they decide are more essential than individuals' right to their own property?

/there, hired trolls, you can take a break, get some lunch, look for a job that doesn't involve spreading propaganda points

Marcus Aurelius: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Marcus Aurelius: It's too bad our nuclear submarine fleet is so vulnerable that we need this boondoggle. If only the Soviets hadn't tracked and sunk so many of our boomer subs during the Cold War.

If only.

You want to know what's wrong with our missile subs? THEY BELONG TO THE GODDAMNED NAVY

/how is the Air Force supposed to have any fun if they can't get in on blowing up the world?

They're just pissed that they're not supposed to put nukes on the XB-37. They're stuck with B-52s and B-1s and B-2s.

But much more likely is that senators from Arizona and New Mexico and Texas and elsewhere are hankering for a few billions dollars in new "defense spending".

It's not like the XB-37 won't be used as a bomber if it's convenient. I'd pretty much guarantee that there's some "Completely unaffiliated" program to design a warhead that can be dropped from some sort of "hypothetical" space bomber and the warheads they develop will (by sure coincidence of course) be held in a warehouse twenty feet from the military shuttle.

Those look cool! I've been looking for an upgrade to the SUV. Something that was a little more stable in snow and mud and was maybe a tad more blast proof. I wonder what the highway mileage is.

Better proposed plan for mobile ICBMs from the 80s:



Peacekeeper Rail Garrison Car

MaudlinMutantMollusk: Marcus Aurelius: It's too bad our nuclear submarine fleet is so vulnerable that we need this boondoggle. If only the Soviets hadn't tracked and sunk so many of our boomer subs during the Cold War.

If only.

You want to know what's wrong with our missile subs? THEY BELONG TO THE GODDAMNED NAVY

/how is the Air Force supposed to have any fun if they can't get in on blowing up the world?

Pretty much. Plus the Navy has so many of the suckers they're turning the older ones into SSGNs.

Personally I'd prefer to get behind the SSBN-X: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSBN-X_future_follow-on_submarine

Assuming the Navy can honestly get the cost down to below 5 billion a unit, a fleet of 8 to 12 wouldn't be all that expensive. Especially when you pay over a decade for the things.

I r,ember when I was doing research for the department of deep pockets. The keywords from superiors where,
He have a hard time spending all that money, we struggle to look for ways.
And
We can get rid of the money fast enough
And
If you have to waste time and money, waste money.

Now, I'll confess, the last one does appeal to me, because given unlimited resources...money...we could really accomplish a great deal. The only problem is when the accolsihment was to end life not make it better.

I'm seriously starting to wonder if the people at the Pentagon have been watching Evangelion and trying to emulate NERV's approach to pointless defense spending.

Strolpol: I'm seriously starting to wonder if the people at the Pentagon have been watching Evangelion and trying to emulate NERV's approach to pointless defense spending.

I remember watching all those anime series and watching countless cities being destroyed, and all I could think was, "How much of their GDP is Japan wasting on the military? It's like, every building is a weapon! No wonder their economy is in the toilet!"

/Economics: It's a mental disease

Why bother? One man will end up disabling them all anyway.

badhatharry: LordJiro: badhatharry: I thought only 2nd rate, almost bankrupt, backasswards communist dictatorships had their missiles on the backs of tractor trailers..........oh, yeah, nevermind. I guess we do need some of those.

So, you don't know what the words 'communist' and 'dictatorship' mean. Good to know.

It worked better as a joke. We are actually more of a weird kind of fascist dictatorship.

You do realize that fascists and communists are at opposite ends of the political spectrum, right?

Oh wait, you STILL don't know what words mean, and you're just spewing buzzwords that you've been told are synonyms for "bad". How do Limbaugh's boots taste, anyway?

Why Amerika failed: Pt. 2617

31 comments in and not one mention of this? For shaaaame.

The 80s version looked like this, in case anyone is curious:

And who exactly are we going to be using all these nukes on again?

Sorry, hippies, but yes: we can't use 1960 era B52s and Minuteman 3s forever.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals."

-- Some liberal, pinko, socialist...

Mugato: Basij: Sorry, hippies, but yes: we can't use 1960 era B52s and Minuteman 3s forever.

Weak.

Or as some of us refer to it, reality. These weapon systems are dated. Their approaching the point of obsolesce. It's time to begin planning their replacements.