OT, but a spooky concept

As I recall the cold war-winning effect of the cruise missile, it was
the HINT to the
paranoid commies that every Delikat-Essen panel truck was a weapon
aimed at them.
We didn't actually have to build any.

One of the important aspects of the MX merry-go-round was making sure
that they
were NOT hidden, so the evil commies would be scared, but not so much
that they
launched a general nuclear war.

I don't think we need to go into the potential for maximum scaredness
for the
maximum number of people.

Nils
(not often visiting this group)

On 5/2/2010 10:29 AM, wrote:
As I recall the cold war-winning effect of the cruise missile, it was
the HINT to the
paranoid commies that every Delikat-Essen panel truck was a weapon
aimed at them.
We didn't actually have to build any.

I don't think we ever had a plan for a disguised version of a Tomahawk
cruise missile launcher, though there was a road-mobile version:
http://cache3.asset-cache.net/xc/533...1E70F2B3269972
This little design made the Russians get very nervous though:
http://files.abovetopsecret.com/uplo...-747cruise.jpg


Pat

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:25:40 -0400, Jeff Findley wrote:

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
news
Just what the world needs - cruise missiles that can be hidden inside
of, and launched from, standard shipping containers:
http://defensetech.org/2010/04/27/co...ruise-missile-
featured-in-slick-marketing-video/
Right now, Hugo Chavez is coming in his pants.

My thoughts exactly. The video screams "Rogue nation! Protect yourself
from the evil United States with our new terror weapon, a cruise missile
in a shipping container!".

It's more of a "Al Qaeada? Can you afford a freighter? If so, we have a
delivery system for your suitcase nukes."

Al Qaeda then puts them on a common shipping freighter and they launch
from offshore. Might work, if they do it right. But I'm not about to say
what they need to do to "do it right".