From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sat Dec 12 1998 - 13:16:10 MST
Eugene Leitl wrote:
> Michael Lorrey writes:
>
> > > Actually, what's the point in sending a Tomahawk from an off-shore
> > > Destroyer or human-piloted fighter/bomber, when you can send
> > > something up in a parabolic trajectory that uses GPS to steer while
> > > decending upon its target?
>
> I'm not sure, but don't you get EM shielding during atmospheric
> reentry due to the plasma screen?
>
> > Because:
> >
> > a) objects in ballistic trajectories tend to trip major alarms in the HQ's of the
> > Strategic Nuclear command centers...
yes, however, the major alarms would be irrelevant, for they would
sound only minutes before the reentry body finds its target. it would
be quite unclear with such a system who fired the shot, since it can
be arranged, with current technology, to be fired from a submerged
submarine, whose location was unknown before the launch. spike
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