Apollo, inspired by the KIROV and SS-N-19 antiship missile?

crewdude48 wrote:

namelessfly wrote:When you are launching rockets intentionally into civilian population centers with the avowed intention of inflicting maximum civilian casualties, I will refer to you as a rag head or some other derogatory name whatever your race, ethnicity or religion.

That is kind of like saying "I only use the N word to refer to certain types of black people." There are plenty of derogatory names that you can use that do not denegrate entire societies.

If you want to be accurate as well as dismissive, you could go with something like "muj," short for mujahedin or "those who struggle," from the same root as jihad. I think their struggle is with basic intelligence. See? I have insulted the people I wanted to insult and not the 70% of the culture who don't support them or the 15% who are actively against them.

They are more or less militant Wesbro Babtists. You wouldn't want somebody grouping you in with them, would you?

namelessfly wrote:A good point.

I confess that my use of certain adjectives for certain groups of people is largely a reaction to the many people on this forum who engage in exactly that type of bigotry in regards to Christains and conservatives.

namelessfly wrote:[SNIP]
...Even more importantly, forcing an attacker to use low altitude or surface bursts enables a defender to employ close in weapons systems such as the 30mm Goalkeeper Gatling gun.

IMHO, we are soon going to suffer a limited nuclear strike that will not destroy the US but make us regret not having defenses.

Donnachaidh wrote:Wouldn't where the CWIS rounds that miss be a big issue if you were using the CWIS is a populated area? It works for ships because the ocean is really empty so it's easy for it to spot where the friendlies are around it.

Annachie wrote:Donna, take a look at the anti-air stuff from WW2. Fire explosive anti-air straight up defending a city, shrapnel comes straight down. London had shelters from their own AA fire.

kzt wrote:

Donnachaidh wrote:Wouldn't where the CWIS rounds that miss be a big issue if you were using the CWIS is a populated area? It works for ships because the ocean is really empty so it's easy for it to spot where the friendlies are around it.

Nope, the rounds have a self-destruct feature. Which mostly works, so you usually just get fairly small pieces falling. Given the accuracy of the current generation of murderous fanatics with rockets and mortars, the threat of having your house and family obliterated by a 122mm GRAD that missed a 2 square mile target by a mile is a lot higher than the chance that you'll be killed by the 20mm rounds.

http://www.msl.army.mil/Pages/C-RAM/default.html

Donnachaidh wrote:Wouldn't where the CWIS rounds that miss be a big issue if you were using the CWIS is a populated area? It works for ships because the ocean is really empty so it's easy for it to spot where the friendlies are around it.

namelessfly wrote:[SNIP]
...Even more importantly, forcing an attacker to use low altitude or surface bursts enables a defender to employ close in weapons systems such as the 30mm Goalkeeper Gatling gun.

IMHO, we are soon going to suffer a limited nuclear strike that will not destroy the US but make us regret not having defenses.

Donnachaidh wrote:It's entirely possible I've missed it but I don't recall people on this forum using slurs against Christians or conservatives.

namelessfly wrote:A good point.

I confess that my use of certain adjectives for certain groups of people is largely a reaction to the many people on this forum who engage in exactly that type of bigotry in regards to Christains and conservatives.

kzt wrote:

Donnachaidh wrote:Wouldn't where the CWIS rounds that miss be a big issue if you were using the CWIS is a populated area? It works for ships because the ocean is really empty so it's easy for it to spot where the friendlies are around it.

Nope, the rounds have a self-destruct feature. Which mostly works, so you usually just get fairly small pieces falling. Given the accuracy of the current generation of murderous fanatics with rockets and mortars, the threat of having your house and family obliterated by a 122mm GRAD that missed a 2 square mile target by a mile is a lot higher than the chance that you'll be killed by the 20mm rounds.

http://www.msl.army.mil/Pages/C-RAM/default.html