Greatest Military Hardware

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A10 with GAU-8 Avenger
 
Duff-Man said:
The hydrogen bomb.

Say what you like about the inherent evil of producing a weapon capable of annhiliating 20 million lives in a fraction of a second (you will be correct...), but the fear of total destruction that they bring has kept the world from full-scale conflict for over 60 years. Diplomacy has become the only option, where previously it would have been conflict. For me, this makes it a 'greater' piece of military hardware than any ship, aircraft or gun.
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The man speaks the truth. Nuclear weapons mean that world war 3 is very unlikely to ever happen because of the sheer destruction the things can cause. The only way it'd ever happen is if a madman gets hold of them, and I would imagine almost all nuclear governments (except perhaps N.Korea where it's already too late) have "Dr Strangelove scenario" protections in place.
 
Moredhel said:
The man speaks the truth. Nuclear weapons mean that world war 3 is very unlikely to ever happen because of the sheer destruction the things can cause. The only way it'd ever happen is if a madman gets hold of them, and I would imagine almost all nuclear governments (except perhaps N.Korea where it's already too late) have "Dr Strangelove scenario" protections in place.
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They said WWII wouldn't happen because WWI was the end of all wars. ;)
 
Capn' $qu!ff said:
It has no weapons it can't attack anything!?!?!
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But it was 30 years ahead of its time, flew faster than anything can even today and the pilots were technically astronauts.


BTW, the CIA wanted to kit her out with weapons... ;)

A marvel of technology, and surprisingly smaller than what you think :)
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
They said WWII wouldn't happen because WWI was the end of all wars. ;)
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After world war one, no country had the capability of reducing another to a sheet of radioactive glass with a handful of missiles fired from the other side of the planet.

It's the mutually assured destruction that stops conflict, not the bloodiness of war that people assumed would prevent it after the first world war.
 
Phnom_Penh said:
Er really?
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Yes really, not one was shot down. Many were shot at, but doing 2000mph at 80,000ft, by the time you have seen it, loaded and fired, its 20 miles away and possibly in a different time zone. Even today, it could still get to places quicker than the authorities can move a military satellite,

Pity the old girls are retired. :(
 
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