Comments on: Nuke Missle Nixed

By: Strategic Thinker

Strategic Thinker — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:44:30 +0000

I just can’t understand it. Why doesn’t the USAF just convert these missiles Conventional Advanced Cruise Missiles. Why risk a pilot’s life when we can upgrade a missile for a fraction of what it costs to build a new fighter? Why not have this capability in our back pocket?

By: Denis

Denis — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:48:32 +0000

Hmm Strange, I was standing gaurd for a U2 jet when I wroked for the Feds as a police officer. I thought it was one of the coolest things to wach take off or better yet land. At WAFB they still have a picture of this bird at 60,000 someodd feet up and it took a picture of a dime on the runway. You caould see the dime as if it were blown up 5x’s the size in your hand. incredible for that day in age of technology. Whats even better is that if they are gonna retire this bird, just imagine what is gonna replace it. I come from the days when the SR71BB was the baddest birf in the air. I can even recall Clinton re authorising a fleet of BB in the 90’s.
Semper Fi

By: Emastro

Emastro — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:02:43 +0000

Why $6 billion? All they had to do was take a normal cruise missile and give it a stealth skin. So much money was wasted.
It was a good concept for WWIII– they would have gotten through to Moscow or Kiev when so many older cruise missiles would have been shot down. But– those days are over.

By: Stephen Russell

Stephen Russell — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:48:00 +0000

Why scrap this missile type, scrap older types BUT this.
Add to naval ships offshore/??
Or from B1s, B52s stand off over Iran airspace.
Hello DoD.
Duh.
Fund this missile.
Big stick in Iran eyes.

By: reefdiver

reefdiver — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:29:33 +0000

I’m curious about this decision. Whats the specific justification for dropping this missile rather than older models?

By: GrimX1

GrimX1 — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:03:58 +0000

As a retired Air Launched Missile Maintainer I invested a considerable amount of my 20+ years working on the ACM. While not the darling of the AF, the ACM brought a number of unique capabilities to the strategic table that will be hard and costly to replace. My hats off to all worked to keep the ACM’s flying!
“Never Send A Pilot To Do A Robots Job!“
GrimX1