>trips like his triple chromosomes
It's "posturing" if you're claiming you'll use them offensively due to some retarded setbacks in a conventional invasion you started outside your own country. Nobody believes that shit. "If you use nukes on us we'll nuke you back" though isn't posturing, it's the basic sensible response to someone else having nukes.
No idea.
https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-largest-ever-expansion-043059469.html
>Great power conflicts re-emerge
"Uh, why?" Anon, you fucking retard, you absolute imbecile.
Next generation SLBM/ICBM replacement has been planned for decades anons. The timing happens to line up (and may get some speedup, or at least protection from budget cuts) with return of great power conflict, but unless they US planned to give up nukes entirely they'd have restarted production at some point even if Russia hadn't chimped out and China hadn't gone back to dictatorship.
Nuclear warheads go bad anon. Eventually they need to be replaced with new ones. They'll reuse the plutonium/uranium pits, raw lithium-deuteride etc, but no modern design lasts forever it's a tradeoff for yield/compactness.
Maybe revamping old nukes isn't going so well and they want some shiny new ones instead of relying on cold war relics that've been inconsistently patched up for decades
Wasn't there some wonder-material called FOGBANK that decayed over time and the US military industrial complex briefly forgot how to make it so a ton of US old nukes were useless for several years while they frantically reverse engineered it?
>muh lost art!
It was made in one facility on ORNL and once they were finished with W76 warhead production they shut the line down and decomissioned it some years later. Over a decade later, they were doing a refurb program on the W76 stockpile and they had to rebuild the line from scratch. This isn't some mystic "the west is falling" bullshit, it happens every time any production line shut down and has to be restarted after a long time. Knowing the steps to produce a material is one thing. Knowing how to set up an industrial production facility to do it efficiently is an entirely other thing. There is a MASSIVE gap in between making something once and making a fuck load of it. The problem wasn't making FOGBANK, it was making a whole bunch of it at sufficient quality.
Fucking really obvious who didn't grow up watching How It's Made and Modern Marvels. People walking around with no fucking clue the about the massive symphony of human effort and industrial power that built everything they touch. IDK if it's a banal lack of curiosity about the world around them, or if they're just fucking stupid.
>muh lost art!
It was made in one facility on ORNL and once they were finished with W76 warhead production they shut the line down and decomissioned it some years later. Over a decade later, they were doing a refurb program on the W76 stockpile and they had to rebuild the line from scratch. This isn't some mystic "the west is falling" bullshit, it happens every time any production line shut down and has to be restarted after a long time. Knowing the steps to produce a material is one thing. Knowing how to set up an industrial production facility to do it efficiently is an entirely other thing. There is a MASSIVE gap in between making something once and making a fuck load of it. The problem wasn't making FOGBANK, it was making a whole bunch of it at sufficient quality.
Fucking really obvious who didn't grow up watching How It's Made and Modern Marvels. People walking around with no fucking clue the about the massive symphony of human effort and industrial power that built everything they touch. IDK if it's a banal lack of curiosity about the world around them, or if they're just fucking stupid.
The problem with Fogbank was that it was an extremely important material in nuke building which hadn't been produced for a couple decades. When they remade it from scratch (which itself took a while) it didn't work, and they only realised that impurities in the original material, created by the less advanced tech of the 60s/70s, was the only way to make it work. They were still able to do it, it just took a really long time and a lot more money than expected.
Large part of the cost was that safety standards had changed and they couldn't make it the same way as they had back when radiological exposure standards were a suggestion and enforcement a myth.
> they tough the us dollar was going to be replaced without a fight > LOL
can't wait for the us navy to be have open season on any countries ditching the USD
it's been too long and peoples have forgotten why the USD became reserve currency
Chinese sabre-rattling. Well done on the wolf warrior shit. In ten years we'll probably see Raytheon unveil a new nuclear missile that can be launched anywhere from anywhere on the planet, locate Xi Jinping's daughter, fly to her, VTOL down and extend a dildo, bring her to orgasm three times, then fly to the Three Gorges Dam, ram straight through it causing it to collapse and unleash the Yangtze River on half of China's population, drop its payload at the Chinese coast and turn the other half to radioactive ash, return to its silo of origin and park itself, all in 15 minutes and with fuel to spare.
That'll be the public low-end decoy to make China underestimate them because the missile they'll actually sell to the US government will be ten times as good.
W76 are nearing the end of their designed service life, even after a SLEP and modernization program.
Hilariously, this could have all been done years ago but Obama cancelled the Reliable Replacement Warhead program because 'nukes bad'. So now the new warheads are basically just an updated version of the RRW program.
>W76 are nearing the end of their designed service life, even after a SLEP and modernization program. >Hilariously, this could have all been done years ago but Obama cancelled the Reliable Replacement Warhead program because 'nukes bad'. So now the new warheads are basically just an updated version of the RRW program.
This. There is nothing exciting here, it's literally a 2000s era program getting bumped back up because "oh, guess we can't just get rid of all nukes tomorrow after all". It's not a return to Cold War era levels of warhead stockpiles, it's just preserving what we've got for another 30 years.
And frankly keeping a handful around is probably a good idea even with world peace. While ideally stuff like deflecting asteroids would be done months/years ahead of time when a tiny ion drive or the like could do the job reliably and completely, we don't yet have a good enough monitoring of the solar system to guarantee that kind of time horizon for everything, so some nuclear warheads around are an ok just-in-case, though 10% of the current levels would still be plenty.
Might also be good to maintain the knowledge just in case humanity ever really does want/need to build an Orion Drive.
Honestly can't even tell what set them off so hard. Like yeah other post points out that monke threatening nukes isn't the same as the us (or uk or france or china for that matter) doing normal MAD, but that's quite obvious and isn't at all controversial. Or do they somehow think that major new weapons procurement programs just, happen, in like a few months like buying something off the shelf or getting a little cabin built or something? I don't get it.
Well the Minute Man missile replacement program is currently running, maybe they want a new warhead to pair with the new missile.
>MUH NOOOOOOOOKS
Remember the whole world laughs at such impotent posturing
>trips like his triple chromosomes
It's "posturing" if you're claiming you'll use them offensively due to some retarded setbacks in a conventional invasion you started outside your own country. Nobody believes that shit. "If you use nukes on us we'll nuke you back" though isn't posturing, it's the basic sensible response to someone else having nukes.
Next generation SLBM/ICBM replacement has been planned for decades anons. The timing happens to line up (and may get some speedup, or at least protection from budget cuts) with return of great power conflict, but unless they US planned to give up nukes entirely they'd have restarted production at some point even if Russia hadn't chimped out and China hadn't gone back to dictatorship.
YIKES
shit trips, it's only posturing if you never use them, or don't have them. America is the only country known for a fact for both.
That’s ok, we have enough of them for you too. Better start worshipping Atom
No idea.
https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-largest-ever-expansion-043059469.html
>Great power conflicts re-emerge
"Uh, why?" Anon, you fucking retard, you absolute imbecile.
Nuclear warheads go bad anon. Eventually they need to be replaced with new ones. They'll reuse the plutonium/uranium pits, raw lithium-deuteride etc, but no modern design lasts forever it's a tradeoff for yield/compactness.
Maybe revamping old nukes isn't going so well and they want some shiny new ones instead of relying on cold war relics that've been inconsistently patched up for decades
Wasn't there some wonder-material called FOGBANK that decayed over time and the US military industrial complex briefly forgot how to make it so a ton of US old nukes were useless for several years while they frantically reverse engineered it?
>Maybe revamping old nukes isn't going so well
Fuck off vatnik
You must be thinking about Russia
You're brown.
>muh lost art!
It was made in one facility on ORNL and once they were finished with W76 warhead production they shut the line down and decomissioned it some years later. Over a decade later, they were doing a refurb program on the W76 stockpile and they had to rebuild the line from scratch. This isn't some mystic "the west is falling" bullshit, it happens every time any production line shut down and has to be restarted after a long time. Knowing the steps to produce a material is one thing. Knowing how to set up an industrial production facility to do it efficiently is an entirely other thing. There is a MASSIVE gap in between making something once and making a fuck load of it. The problem wasn't making FOGBANK, it was making a whole bunch of it at sufficient quality.
Fucking really obvious who didn't grow up watching How It's Made and Modern Marvels. People walking around with no fucking clue the about the massive symphony of human effort and industrial power that built everything they touch. IDK if it's a banal lack of curiosity about the world around them, or if they're just fucking stupid.
The problem with Fogbank was that it was an extremely important material in nuke building which hadn't been produced for a couple decades. When they remade it from scratch (which itself took a while) it didn't work, and they only realised that impurities in the original material, created by the less advanced tech of the 60s/70s, was the only way to make it work. They were still able to do it, it just took a really long time and a lot more money than expected.
Large part of the cost was that safety standards had changed and they couldn't make it the same way as they had back when radiological exposure standards were a suggestion and enforcement a myth.
Do not ask why the violence must escalate.
Ask only that you take part in it's display.
that's what winning looks like chud
Why not?
>/pol/nigs immediately start seething at basic obvious common sense
lmao
lol even
Are you actually retarded
>everyone making fun of me is one person
Less than 30 posts and we are already reaching peak PrepHoleope
I never said that. Are you retarded?
pls stop you're making the rest of us look bad and then the chads on 4chan will make fun of us
> they tough the us dollar was going to be replaced without a fight
> LOL
can't wait for the us navy to be have open season on any countries ditching the USD
it's been too long and peoples have forgotten why the USD became reserve currency
Because it was far enough from Europe to not get destroyed by war?
Theses things have an expiration date. You need to make new ones even if you never improve or develop new variants.
nuclear warheads are liek crabs they need new shells every 10 to 20 years.
All returns to crab.
>why
to bomb bombass children
Chinese sabre-rattling. Well done on the wolf warrior shit. In ten years we'll probably see Raytheon unveil a new nuclear missile that can be launched anywhere from anywhere on the planet, locate Xi Jinping's daughter, fly to her, VTOL down and extend a dildo, bring her to orgasm three times, then fly to the Three Gorges Dam, ram straight through it causing it to collapse and unleash the Yangtze River on half of China's population, drop its payload at the Chinese coast and turn the other half to radioactive ash, return to its silo of origin and park itself, all in 15 minutes and with fuel to spare.
That'll be the public low-end decoy to make China underestimate them because the missile they'll actually sell to the US government will be ten times as good.
W76 are nearing the end of their designed service life, even after a SLEP and modernization program.
Hilariously, this could have all been done years ago but Obama cancelled the Reliable Replacement Warhead program because 'nukes bad'. So now the new warheads are basically just an updated version of the RRW program.
>W76 are nearing the end of their designed service life, even after a SLEP and modernization program.
>Hilariously, this could have all been done years ago but Obama cancelled the Reliable Replacement Warhead program because 'nukes bad'. So now the new warheads are basically just an updated version of the RRW program.
This. There is nothing exciting here, it's literally a 2000s era program getting bumped back up because "oh, guess we can't just get rid of all nukes tomorrow after all". It's not a return to Cold War era levels of warhead stockpiles, it's just preserving what we've got for another 30 years.
And frankly keeping a handful around is probably a good idea even with world peace. While ideally stuff like deflecting asteroids would be done months/years ahead of time when a tiny ion drive or the like could do the job reliably and completely, we don't yet have a good enough monitoring of the solar system to guarantee that kind of time horizon for everything, so some nuclear warheads around are an ok just-in-case, though 10% of the current levels would still be plenty.
Might also be good to maintain the knowledge just in case humanity ever really does want/need to build an Orion Drive.
Because how else would b21 nuke three gorges dam?
we're gonna sell them to Russia so we can be sure they actually have working nukes and remain a credible threat
More morons than south Africa lmfao
Are these the new approved shill responses or is it just mental illness?
Honestly can't even tell what set them off so hard. Like yeah other post points out that monke threatening nukes isn't the same as the us (or uk or france or china for that matter) doing normal MAD, but that's quite obvious and isn't at all controversial. Or do they somehow think that major new weapons procurement programs just, happen, in like a few months like buying something off the shelf or getting a little cabin built or something? I don't get it.
They're all the same person anon
Probably so we can have more than anyone else.
At this point Russia probably can't afford to build more, which means we can finally overtake them.
Gee I wonder why?