USSTRATCOM Announces New LGM-35 Sentinel ICBM System

After watching a few of the YouTube videos, I am impressed, but I don't think it's the world's fastest and maybe it doesn't need to be the fastest, just the most effective and accurate. I think the Russian BrahMos missile is the fastest, according to what I have read. Speed isn't everything, unless we are talking about interceptors. I would like to hear from Been There. He seems to know something about missiles.

I have to wonder how many of these missiles we have in place at each launch facility and do they have them aimed or are they in the ground waiting on guidance? Some of the stuff I read, I didn't understand. A few of the videos that I watched was confusing to me and some of the information kind of contradicted each other. I never got into this stuff when I was in the Marines and if I asked someone about nuclear anything, I would get the answer, "That's on a need to know basis and you don't need to know." That seemed to be a favorite saying in the Marines.
 
oldman said:
After watching a few of the YouTube videos, I am impressed, but I don't think it's the world's fastest and maybe it doesn't need to be the fastest, just the most effective and accurate. I think the Russian BrahMos missile is the fastest, according to what I have read. Speed isn't everything, unless we are talking about interceptors. I would like to hear from Been There. He seems to know something about missiles.

I have to wonder how many of these missiles we have in place at each launch facility and do they have them aimed or are they in the ground waiting on guidance? Some of the stuff I read, I didn't understand. A few of the videos that I watched was confusing to me and some of the information kind of contradicted each other. I never got into this stuff when I was in the Marines and if I asked someone about nuclear anything, I would get the answer, "That's on a need to know basis and you don't need to know." That seemed to be a favorite saying in the Marines.
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Keep in mind that at least 99% of these Youtube videos, along with the numerous forums, blogs and personal websites have zero access to anything involved with Russia or Americas Strategic policies, nuclear weapons or anything concerning a real WWIII scenario, even the KiwiSDR live streams monitoring the STRATCOM EAMS. Those who talk don't know and those who know don't talk.
 
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FastTrax said:
Keep in mind that at least 99% of these Youtube videos, along with the numerous forums, blogs and personal websites have zero access to anything involved with Russia or Americas Strategic policies, nuclear weapons or anything concerning involving a real WWIII scenario, even the KiwiSDR live streams monitoring the STRATCOM EAMS. Those who talk don't know and those who know don't talk.
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I would agree that you are probably correct with your assertions regarding available information. After all, some of this stuff is considered top secret. If it wasn’t, all of our enemies would be building the next best thing.
 
I had read recently that the state of our existing system is beyond out dated, and was still running on floppy discs. Should they ever have to be used, that will probably be the end of us on the planet, but I guess the deterent may be important, that, and corporate profit.
 
Geezer Garage said:
I had read recently that the state of our existing system is beyond out dated, and was still running on floppy discs. Should they ever have to be used, that will probably be the end of us on the planet, but I guess the deterent may be important, that, and corporate profit.
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I have to seriously doubt that we have anything nuclear running on floppy discs, but saying that doesn’t make it so.
 
Geezer Garage said:
I had read recently that the state of our existing system is beyond out dated, and was still running on floppy discs. Should they ever have to be used, that will probably be the end of us on the planet, but I guess the deterent may be important, that, and corporate profit.
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oldman said:
I have to seriously doubt that we have anything nuclear running on floppy discs, but saying that doesn’t make it so.
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Me neither, I think one of the videos alludes to Leslie Stahl bringing that to light in an interview.

floppy disk 4.jpg

floppy disk 5.jpeg

floppy disk 6.jpg

www.gao.gov/assets/gao-16-696t.pdf

https://nuke.fas.org/guide/usa/c3i/saccs.htm

www.themilitarystandard.com/missile/minuteman/flightcomputer.php

www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html

www.taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/floppy-disks-nuclear-forces-upgrade/

www.computerhope.com/help/floppy.htm

www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/261/1079

www.cbsnews.com/news/whose-minding-the-nuclear-weapons/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-30_Minuteman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_launch_control_center




 
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oldman said:
After watching a few of the YouTube videos, I am impressed, but I don't think it's the world's fastest and maybe it doesn't need to be the fastest, just the most effective and accurate. I think the Russian BrahMos missile is the fastest, according to what I have read. Speed isn't everything, unless we are talking about interceptors. I would like to hear from Been There. He seems to know something about missiles.

I have to wonder how many of these missiles we have in place at each launch facility and do they have them aimed or are they in the ground waiting on guidance? Some of the stuff I read, I didn't understand. A few of the videos that I watched was confusing to me and some of the information kind of contradicted each other. I never got into this stuff when I was in the Marines and if I asked someone about nuclear anything, I would get the answer, "That's on a need to know basis and you don't need to know." That seemed to be a favorite saying in the Marines.
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I can't help you out too much, oldman. We weren't taught too much about the missiles themselves. We were mostly concentrated on the guidance systems. The weapons officers, which sits in he second seat fires and directs the missile to its target. There's a whole lot more to it and if you want to know or learn more, send me a message. I don't want to use a lot of space here.
 
oldman said:
After watching a few of the YouTube videos, I am impressed, but I don't think it's the world's fastest and maybe it doesn't need to be the fastest, just the most effective and accurate. I think the Russian BrahMos missile is the fastest, according to what I have read. Speed isn't everything, unless we are talking about interceptors. I would like to hear from Been There. He seems to know something about missiles.

I have to wonder how many of these missiles we have in place at each launch facility and do they have them aimed or are they in the ground waiting on guidance? Some of the stuff I read, I didn't understand. A few of the videos that I watched was confusing to me and some of the information kind of contradicted each other. I never got into this stuff when I was in the Marines and if I asked someone about nuclear anything, I would get the answer, "That's on a need to know basis and you don't need to know." That seemed to be a favorite saying in the Marines.
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FastTrax said:
Keep in mind that at least 99% of these Youtube videos, along with the numerous forums, blogs and personal websites have zero access to anything involved with Russia or Americas Strategic policies, nuclear weapons or anything concerning a real WWIII scenario, even the KiwiSDR live streams monitoring the STRATCOM EAMS. Those who talk don't know and those who know don't talk.
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oldman said:
I would agree that you are probably correct with your assertions regarding available information. After all, some of this stuff is considered top secret. If it wasn’t, all of our enemies would be building the next best thing.
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Geezer Garage said:
I had read recently that the state of our existing system is beyond out dated, and was still running on floppy discs. Should they ever have to be used, that will probably be the end of us on the planet, but I guess the deterent may be important, that, and corporate profit.
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Been There said:
I can't help you out too much, oldman. We weren't taught too much about the missiles themselves. We were mostly concentrated on the guidance systems. The weapons officers, which sits in he second seat fires and directs the missile to its target. There's a whole lot more to it and if you want to know or learn more, send me a message. I don't want to use a lot of space here.
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I wanted to join the public access forum section on this site to generally understand our "Strategic Nuclear Program" It was made quite clear that this site doesn't exist for public access and the membership is only for active duty, retired, students, confirmed friends of active duty or retired members. No exceptions.

www.afmissileers.org
 
Been There said:
I can't help you out too much, oldman. We weren't taught too much about the missiles themselves. We were mostly concentrated on the guidance systems. The weapons officers, which sits in he second seat fires and directs the missile to its target. There's a whole lot more to it and if you want to know or learn more, send me a message. I don't want to use a lot of space here.
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What are you talking about when you wrote that the weapons officer fires the missiles? Did you fly while in the service? Did you ever fire missiles while in action against a foreign country?
 
Moon Rat said:
What are you talking about when you wrote that the weapons officer fires the missiles? Did you fly while in the service? Did you ever fire missiles while in action against a foreign country?
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In his defense he might have been referring to 2 seat fighters such as the retired F-14 Fighter platform and/or the still in service C-130 bomber
platforms with a pilot and possibly a co-pilot and the weapons release team is in the rear. Maverick and Goose comes to mind with Maverick as the F14 Naval aviator and Goose as the RIO in Top Gun, however maybe Maverick handles the missile releases too. I've seen some authentic looking Youtube videos alluding to C-130 bomber teams in combat operations in the Middle East theater. Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the pilot handles all the aspects in the A10, F15, F16, pilot only F/A18, F22, F35, etc. etc. etc., I've seen two seat F/A18's and the B2 is a two seat operation while the B1B has a team. Could be wrong but that's the way I am taking it leastways.
 
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Tish said:
Wow! That is a serious weapon.
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The USAF media release videos make this next-gen land based ICBM to be the best thing since sliced bread. The most destructive nuclear gravity bomb in history was the former Soviet Unions 50 megaton Tsar Bomba.

www.thebulletin.org/2021/11/the-untold-story-of-the-worlds-biggest-nuclear-bomb/

www.nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html

www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/tsar-bomba-largest-atomic-test-world-history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba





 
SeniorBen said:
Cool. I've been thinking about getting an ICBM and this one looks good.

I wonder if I can get it through Amazon, although if they use USPS for shipping, they (USPS) will probably lose it. They lost two items I was supposed to receive yesterday, but that's a topic for another thread.
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It does say affordable! I am sure this one has been quite inexpensive, like most high tech DOD weapons...

I can understand not wanting outdated technology that could lead to an accident. However I am not sure we need any new missile systems...
 
FastTrax said:
In his defense he might have been referring to 2 seat fighters such as the retired F-14 Fighter platform and/or the still in service C-130 bomber
platforms with a pilot and possibly a co-pilot and the weapons release team is in the rear. Maverick and Goose comes to mind with Maverick as the F14 Naval aviator and Goose as the RIO in Top Gun, however maybe Maverick handles the missile releases too. I've seen some authentic looking Youtube videos alluding to C-130 bomber teams in combat operations in the Middle East theater. Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the pilot handles all the aspects in the A10, F15, F16, pilot only F/A18, F22, F35, etc. etc. etc., I've seen two seat F/A18's and the B2 is a two seat operation while the B1B has a team. Could be wrong but that's the way I am taking it leastways.
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Man that’s a lot to swallow. I am going to drop him a note as soon as I figure out how to do that.
 
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FastTrax said:
The USAF media release videos make this next-gen land based ICBM to be the best thing since sliced bread. The most destructive nuclear gravity bomb in history was the former Soviet Unions 50 megaton Tsar Bomba.

www.thebulletin.org/2021/11/the-untold-story-of-the-worlds-biggest-nuclear-bomb/

www.nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html

www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/tsar-bomba-largest-atomic-test-world-history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba





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Holy Shit!
 
Tish said:
Holy Shit!
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Ditto. Now imagine that beast being miniatured with todays technology and equip a decommissioned MX-Peacekeeper mirv bus with 10 of them with whatever the planned full complement at F.E. Warren Air Force Base was. Shows over kiddies. KYAG...............................
 
Sometimes sci-fi is reality that will come to pass someday. I remember seeing old comic books at flea markets portraying a spaceman on the moon. I know people had to laugh when they read their kid's comic books, yet we have gone far beyond landing on the moon.
 
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