• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Part of me can’t help but imagine a helpful switch from our nuclear arsenal would be to invest all that fissile material into RAMjet style drones.

    Being able to keep them airborne for such extended periods means you can have a shitton more coverage to decapitate a first strike with

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        1 year ago

        I was talking about the shielded core version, and with non nuclear warheads, basically it would specialize in being fast as all fuck and having cheap munitions to shoot missiles out of the air with.

        More importantly, making it public that you’re dismantling warheads to achieve this, make a display of exiting the nuclear arms race by developing a tool meant to pose a direct challenge to nuclear hegemony.