Re: Is it war??
Originally Posted by
The Artful Todger
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Actually we do have some 100% autonomous ballistic missiles capable of being nuclear tipped, as well as a wide variety of non-ballistic things.
SF is talking about
anti-ballistic missile missiles.
The Yanks have them and I'm sure the Russians do too, but to the best of my knowledge neither we nor the Frogs have them.
I think I might have mentioned in a completely different thread that we were once developing one using our Bloodhound anti-aircraft missiles but, like so many things, that was cancelled by our politicians!
What we DO have (and the Frogs don't!) is a ballistic missile early warning radar system at Fylingdales, which would give us several minutes' warning of any heading our way and give us time to launch a retaliatory strike.
In addition to our Trident nuclear missiles, we certainly have many more nuclear warheads which are not mounted on ballistic missiles. They don't say so, but presumably these would be carried by aircraft. What else would we do with them?!