Daily Mail: ANOTHER missile launch soars over California: The Navy launches a second nuclear-capable Trident on day two of dramatic war games that have sparked a host of conspiracy theories
* US Navy fired a second and final nuclear-capable Trident II (D5) missile off coast of California on Monday afternoon as part of a top-secret test
* The missile comes after Saturday night's launch, which sparked a flurry of calls to police and posts on social media speculating that it might be a UFO
* Photographer Abe Blair happened to be taking pictures of San Francisco when the mysterious streak appeared
* He captured the dazzling blue light shooting across the sky after the ballistic missile was fired from USS Kentucky
The US Navy launched a second and final missile from a submarine off the southern California coast as part of a planned exercise on Monday afternoon, officials said.
The second test launch of the Trident II (D5) missile from a ballistic submarine occurred with much less commotion that Saturday night’s launch, which gave Twitter its very own nuclear meltdown with thousands speculating that it was a UFO.
But a Navy spokesman confirmed that it was in fact an unarmed Trident II (D5) missile that was fired from the USS Kentucky, a ballistic missile submarine.
WNU Editor: My brother lives in San Mateo (south of San Francisco). He saw the missile and he told me that he was impressed.
More News On the U.S. Navy Conducting Missile Tests Over California
Navy launches second test missile off Southern California coast -- L.A. Times
The Navy Just Launched a Second Missile Off Southern California Coast -- Epoch Times
Navy: Unusual Conditions in Missile Test Gave West Coast a 'Show' -- NBC San Diego
Secrecy was crucial in missile test launch that rattled L.A., experts say -- L.A. Times
California missile test: Social media nightmare or exactly what the Navy wanted? -- Washington Post
3 comments:
$66,000,000: Price of ONE Trident II D5 missile.
Expensive light show for a weapon likely never to be used in combat and that provides little if any deterrence in non-nuclear conflicts.
The best use of nuclear tipped missiles occurred when Russia destroyed a bunch of them. The nuclear material harvested from these weapons helped power civilian nuclear plants for several years with high quality fuel.
They also helped in reinforce the doctrine of mutually assured destruction so 66000000 sounds fsir.
Fazman: How many missile and warheads are required to implement MAD? I would hazard a guess that the U.S. has more than it needs as does Russia. For example (http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Nuclearweaponswhohaswhat) the U.S. has an estimated 7,100 warheads with about 1,600 deployed and about 4,700 stockpiled. The U.S. will likely spend $1 trillion on a new generation of nuclear weapons over the next 30 years (http://ploughshares.org/real-cost-nuclear-weapons?gclid=COLgmb-RhskCFQaTaQodpaED5A). Then there are the costs of maintenance and waste management, clean up of contaminated sites, operation and maintenance of the nuclear storage and delivery infrastructure, etc.
We could build ourselves quite the nice country if we produced a sufficient amount of never to be used weapons instead of the current approach. Our conventional military, the people who enter a new war every year or two, could use some of that money for their body armor and other critical materials.
Apparently, the U.S. goes to nuclear war with the military it wants. It goes to conventional war with what it has. It has no money for seat belts in school buses. We likely could have used the $132,000,000 to protect our kids, our most valuable resource, rather than put on a light show for the West Coast.
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