LGM-118 MX Peacekeer ICBM

jerry old said:
Ok Trax, how come we name weapons that can wipe out a few million fluff names: PeaceKeeper, Sunflower, Butterspread...
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ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess it's an American military thing. MX a/k/a "Missile Experimental" might have been considered too radical and politically unnacceptable so I guess to lighten the brutal and harsh reality of the wholesale damage just one ICBM with 10 warheads could inflict on an adversary I guess "Peacekeeper" was probably added. The Russians could have cared less. Any nuclear equipped nation that detonated a 50 megaton bomb and names one of it's ICBM's "Satan" is not worried about what anybody thinks. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO with that having been uttered maybe the next phase of "MAD" nuclear weapons will be named Cupcake, Tulip and Puffy, you know, sh*t like that.

"Peace is our Profession" or "Peace Through Superior Firepower"?

Speaking of a genius move to cover a presidential faux pas that probably cost more then the original military press release itself read this.

www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/how-the-sr-71-blackbird-got-its-name

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GOD BLESS AMERICA.
 
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jerry old said:
Ok Trax, how come we name weapons that can wipe out a few million fluff names: PeaceKeeper, Sunflower, Butterspread...
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Look at the names and paintings on planes during our wars. I recall a comment by a Vietnamese person on why America paints images of partially naked women while they drop bombs and napalm. The Enola Gay was named after Colonel Tibetts' mother'. Some tribute eh?
 
My all-time favorite missiles are the Titan and the Minuteman ICBM’s. These powerful missiles are capable of unbelievable destruction.
The Minuteman III is really impressive with it’s multiple nuclear warheads that have the ability to strike three independent targets miles apart. It isn’t cheap at around $7million.
 
Two powerful weapons. One the defend. One to give pause. Thanks for posting Gaer
 
jerry old said:
Ok Trax, how come we name weapons that can wipe out a few million fluff names: PeaceKeeper, Sunflower, Butterspread...
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Why would we name the mission when we flew into Libya after Gaddafi took credit for blowing up the Disco in Germany in 1986
“Operation El Dorado Canyon?”
 
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