Mike Conaway, WSJ: Enemy Cruise Missile, Meet the U.S. Rail Gun
Using electricity to fire high-speed projectiles is a relative bargain at $35,000 per shot.
As Congress meets this month to mark up the fiscal year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act and appropriations bill, members will debate how to best meet tomorrow’s security challenges with today’s finite amount of money. The U.S. built history’s most powerful military through technological innovation. Yet our military advantage is quickly diminishing as other countries acquire comparable capabilities.
China has developed a large and growing ballistic and cruise-missile inventory capable of accurately striking targets on land and at sea over long ranges. Iran has fielded multiple antiship cruise missiles and has an arsenal of ballistic missiles that can reach targets across the Middle East and Europe. Russia has long had sophisticated ballistic and cruise missiles and has increasingly shown a willingness to use them. Other state and nonstate actors possess theater ballistic missiles and rockets that threaten the U.S. military and could be used to terrorize the civilian populations of U.S. allies.
WNU Editor: The U.S. Navy has definitely become an innovator in new weapons tech.
1 comment:
"and has an arsenal of ballistic missiles that can reach targets across the Middle East and Europe...". Sure. And if my Aunt had balls she'd be my..... More hysteria and threat inflation from the neocon rag that is the WSJ.
Did they hire Lindsey Graham to write this silliness?
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