Falcon

[Dr Mordrid]

Force Application and Launch from the CONtinental US

http://www.darpa.mil/baa/SN03-23.htm

Tidbit:

A hypersonic cruise vehicle (HCV) that can deliver either 12000 lbs of explosives or multiple munitions including smaller cruise missiles.

Space launch vehicles (SLV's).

etc.

Logic: to reduce the need for forward basing and the political issues the need for this can bring on.

Dr. Mordrid

[GT98]

hmm sounds alot like a recallable ICBM

[Dr Mordrid]

That it does...and being unmanned more likely to be deployed during a crisis.

Dr. Mordrid

[GT98]

Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
That it does...and being unmanned more likely to be deployed during a crisis.

Dr. Mordrid

Why worry about deploying it when it can it almost anything from the states?

[Dr Mordrid]

I mean that by not being manned it's more likely to be used.

Dr. Mordrid

[Marshmallowman]

is that a weapon of mass destruction?

[Dr Mordrid]

It's a weapons delivery system, and so can carry about anything. Most likely these days it'll carry smart conventional warheads.

Dr. Mordrid

[THE_Editor]

I MUCH prefer this sort of Falcon ...

[GNEP]

And I prefer this sort:

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42852

[THE_Editor]

Now THAT .. IS .. KEWL

Must build myself a Battlestar Galactica PC !!