Comments on: Pentagon Plan: Hit Anywhere on Earth, in an Hour

By: Rhyno327

Rhyno327 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:56:01 +0000

Submarine launched ballistic missles, parked off the coast of an Asian or African country, with an HE warhead is a good idea. An SSBN with a mix of nuclear and HE is one way to strike quickly.

By: stephen russell

stephen russell — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:07:54 +0000

Need this if Russia & China send FBMs off our shores to fire missiles aside those from Iran alone or China.
Must have this capacity.

By: Miguel Salles

Miguel Salles — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:48:57 +0000

Comments to Hit Anywhere in an Hour: In reading this article I became aware that the planners as well as the writer of it forgot a few details along the way. What is the definition of strike in one hour anywhere? What are the methods to be used like force deployment, air strike or missle attack. You only described missle attack because its the only way the requirement can be achieved today. I agree with some of the comments that using a Trident missle is the most expensive way to strike anywhere in an hour. But if instead of spending billions on worthless military hardware programs we could shift our priorities to development of hardware for rapid deployment forces like a supersonic troop transport with VSTOL capability and Mach 5 then you would come close to deploying a strike force anywhere within that time frame. The technology exist to do it but like the man space exploration program we traded it for sattelite reconnaisance of the planets. This has been a grave error and giant mistake because as the planet warms up, millions on people are going to die from heat and lack of oxygen! By the time governments come around to recognizing they have a global problem it will be too late! The most important part of this comment is that we will not have the capability to transport people to Mars or Venus and relieve the pressure on our natural resources. Also save their lives and expand humanity. That is the one single thing the planners at NASA have denied us with their bad decisions.…the ability to expand humanity into other planets. This is the same problem with the worthless military hardware programs of today. They are misguided and serve no real purpose. It seems that the Threat identifyers and the hardware designers to meet that threat are not talking to each other. Back in the Thirties we had a choice: Use hydrogen as our vehicle fuel or oil. We chose oil! Now that we need to switch in order to reverse the effects of decades of polluting the world with hydrocarbon emissions, we don

By: Clark

Clark — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:34:11 +0000

I hear alot about people wanting free this or that, and by the way let the federal government pay for it. That way I can set back and complain while living off the social programs. I think two years of federal service is exactly what we need. No it doesn’t have to be in the Armed Forces, we only take the best anyway. That’s about 2–3% of the entire nation that can even make it in. But let everyone work in the system for two years then I would be more then happy to let them complain. Tell they sed even a drop of blood for there freedom there just parasites anyway.
SGT Clark
438TH MP
US Army

By: TBird

TBird — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:15:57 +0000

DavidB: Awww Come on fella: N.Korea has no oil or anything else of value. Hardly has food. And they managed to build the bomb and missiles to deliver them. So well that they export what they have built. What makes you think Iran will go broke with all the oil money they have coming in?

By: Al

Al — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:18:12 +0000

And all from the people at 1600 Pennsylvania and in the Five sided building who gave us “Star Wars”. “Everything changes and nothing changes”.

By: Doug Fingles

Doug Fingles — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:04:49 +0000

Unfortunately, physics still has to be taken into account. While it might get there fast, no material can penetrate deeper than 4 times it's body length through solid material, no matter the speed of impact. "Rods of God" (tungsten, ceramic, or whathaveyou) 3 feet long impacting at hypersonic velocity will only achieve 12ft of penetration before the "rod" is converted to energy and deflected/reflected away. So, the target has to be "soft" or on/near the surface. Then, the intel has to be accurate, or we've wasted x millions of dollars on a fake, or bad intel, and considering today's intel, that's not reassuring. Third, the target needs to be extremely high in value--otherwise we "waste" our resources by killing a cheap thing with an expensive thing. All in all, the limiting factors point to this being a real boondoggle--lots of money and resources spent to achieve...?

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:31:43 +0000

All of the comments that mention the need for social programs and the better use of our money are well intentioned. The problem with the thought proecess is without a strong and effective military we will not have a free country to have social programs.
It would be better for our country and every citizen if we would get over the diversity programming and get back to the “melting pot” ideal of America. In other words the indivdual needs to become American; learn english, study our history, take personal responsiblity for your education, stop making excuses for your failures, get a job and we all need to stop being so sensative about what others say.

By: al espenschied

al espenschied — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:00:19 +0000

I say we buy a contract for at least 10,000 of these. Also, hire Haliburton to maintain them at say a trillion dollars for the life of the contract. You might say that that would be too expensive. Well to pay for it, we could get rid of all social programs, everything, that would give the pentagon another $400,000,000,000 billion to work with then make military service mandatory without pay of any sort AND indefinate, that way, we have all the free help we need to protect freedom from the murderous savages outside our borders.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:59:13 +0000

Without being a devil's advocate: we never really will ever need to bomb Iran or North Korea for that matter. All we have to do is sit back and watch them destroy themselves. Didn't you hear the latest on Iran? They are spending so much of their oil reserve money that they will be bancrupt in 20 years. N Korea? Please, give me a break. China? They are too economically tied to the US to ever want a conflict with us. They just keep playing the bad guy so that we/they can spend some big bucks on "Strategic Defense". The Hypersonic Vehicles with HE theory will give us one thing: A way to scare the crap out of every country in the world: "We can strike with a HE bomb anywhere in the world w/in 1 hour". That's all we need. Just like the nukes during the Cold War. It was the fear factor that helped us win the Cold War without a fire ever been shot. Give me a break.