Damn, so this beautiful bastard could just be orbiting above Iran melting the missiles in their initial boost phase unbothered. A crying shame I say…

Why would it we're not at war with Iran

flying corruption
>PAJAT

>>63849259 (OP)
Genuine question, what is it and does it do?

>>63849259 (OP)
What is the benefit to the United States to go to war with Iran.

>>63849298
to destroy Iran, that is the benefit. It benefits all the Western Powers while harming China & Russia.

>>63849274
It was a test bed for a big ass (megawatt range) chemical laser for an airborne platform that could target and destroy boost-phase missiles. Originally for a Iran or NK type belligerent that may have unknown but few hidden launch locations. Decades later and we have that exact scenario and I can imagine the tech has progressed far beyond the demo vehicle. Tom Clancy’s HAWX ace combat rip-off games also had these bad boys and that’s where I fell in love with them.

>>63849309
We'll schlomo, I don't think destroying Iran actually does anything for the us. You Jews are on your own. Hope you die, sweaty

>>63849322
>removes the people funding multiple fundamentalist terror groups across the ME
>removes the people funding destabilization efforts in multiple ME nations
>removes the potential threat to international shipping near the straight of hormuz
>gives the US a chance to test their fancy new toys in action against some third rate shit hole with zero repercussions
>removes a potential future source of nuclear material or weapons to non state actors
>get to kick the ever loving shit out of a country that's been screaming "Death to America!" for almost half a century
I can't think of any reason the US hasn't gone to war with Iran sooner.

>>63849315
So it basically destroys enemy missiles as they're being launched? That's badass. I assume it flies way out of enemy reach and just "babysits" the missiles. Does it work on nuclear missiles?

>>63849345
Look, I know your copy and pasting from your jidf playbook, but Iran only hates America cause Jews. And you fucking Jews bombed them first. They didn't attack you. Enjoy getting your gay pride statues in Tel Aviv blown up. Fuck you.

>>63849346
>I assume it flies way out of enemy reach
no lol the problem was it has to sit basically inside the enemy airspace, but otherwise correct, it's a boost phase interceptor

it should work fine on nukes, the laser worked by puncturing the fuel tank of the missile, the warhead should be irrelevant

>>63849359
>jooooooos reeeeeeee
the entire Iranian military is dead or incapacitated and you're writing seething cope about singular statues in Tel Aviv lmao

>>63849309
>It benefits all the Western Powers while harming China & Russia.
fuckoff centcom

>>63849274
vacuum up vast amounts of taxpayer money and redirect it to israel

>>63849259 (OP)
You'd likely have needed a half dozen of these things to really do anything useful.

>>63849367
Lmao this kike just admitted to homo statues in Tel Aviv.

Not supporting your schlomo. Hope you get murdered.

>>63849259 (OP)
Hey my former work place ;)

t. ABQ

>>63849268
America doesn't need to be at war with a country to bomb them. The law says so, it also says congress isn't needed. So the president could in theory start a war without congress.

Medusa bros...

>>63849298
iran funds houthis that keep closing the suez canal and they keep trying to close the hormuz strait

>>63849259 (OP)
it's rotting somewhere in the desert

>>63849259 (OP)
I've seen it before it was disassembled. The laser was a chemical laser and it was so toxic they couldn't put it on display and had to scrap it. Like the boneyard tourbus didn't even get within 200 yards of it.

>>63849986
That looks like the middle of nowhere but it's actually practically in the middle of Tucson.

>>63850008
arizona? yeah that's the desert

>>63850008
>Tucson
yea otherwise known as the middle of nowhere

>>63849406
You can keep hoping and I'll be over here in reality where Israel is winning lol

>>63849359
>>63849406
Mudslime extermination will continue regardless of the consent of you or your fantasy book under the name "quran".

>>63849259 (OP)
You see that reflective looking piece on the nose?
That's a mirror. It reflects the laser towards the target.
Do you know what a mirror is? It's a few µm of shiny metal coating.
You do realise the implications of this, right?

>>63849974
sounds like an eurpoor issue, they should be the ones spinning up their strategic boomers... oh wait. Well, they have a few aircraft carriers at least.

>>63849345
Those all sound like Israeli and European problems.

>>63849322
Yes, yes. Well done, America. Well done, America. However...
>[false flags you]
Now you have to fight for us.

>>63854219
Honestly if the Israelis actually managed to sink the Nimitz I don't even know if I'd be mad, just impressed.

>>63854227
What a psychological blow it would be to America. Gosh, we'd just have to go to war if that happened. There'd probably be more American casualties than 9/11!

I imagine israel could do it with a sub, or a mine, or a sabotage device hidden on board by a double agent.

>>63854276
You imagine wrong. It would probably take days of sustained fire. Modern carriers are not easy to sink.

>>63850008
tuc town pls see >>63850196

>>63849315
it was a testbed for icbm's
it failed on half of the times to stop anything
they found the issue
fixed it
but it required to be way closer withing 100-200km of the target
which essentially made them DOA

>>63854282
Carriers (and modern ships in general) have no armor worth mentioning, a spicy rifle round will penetrate the hull no problem.
It's obvious when you look at how carriers sit in the water, there's a gigantic volume above the water and a relatively small volume under water, any appreciable amount of armor would make them sit so low in the water you could hang your feet into the water from the flight deck.
Look at any armored ship from the past, huge hulls below water with barely anything sticking out above.
A big anti-ship missile with a penetrating warhead would smash thru the entire ship and blow up somewhere in the middle and break the keel.
Same with a regular heavyweight submarine fired torpedo, would straight up break it in half and sink it in one go.

>>63849298
Regime substitution and resource theft by bribery.

I mean duh. America is addicted to oil. We heard this.

>>63854585
That was a hospital ship!

>>63849298
Cutting the Islamic Republic and its attendant IRGC out of the game would unironically stabilise the Middle East. That'll save a whole lot of time and effort in the sandbox.

>>63849315
I remember the ABL. Makes me wonder about that one launch DPRK kept bragging about.....then on launch day the thing exploded shortly after launch. And yes the ABL was airborne nearby

>>63849259 (OP)
>melting the missiles in their initial boost phase
>melt 2
>needs to land to recharge batteries
>24h recharge time
>as soon as there a little bit of atmospheric haze the useful range decreases by half

>>63856967
>Cutting the Islamic Republic and its attendant IRGC out of the game would unironically stabilise the Middle East
lolno. The only agitator in the middle east is Israel. There will never be peace in the Middle East till Israel keeps wanting to create Greater Israel and genociding everyone who already lived there for the past 1000 years.

>>63854210
>well if you just surrendered to all the insane warmongering islamist tyrant's demands then you wouldn't have anything to fear from them!

>>63854585
So you're telling me there's an absolute fuckhuge volume of air within a US carrier? Have you ever been inside a supercarrier, I have. Do you have any idea how many bulkheads there are?

>>63849872
Me too, anon. Fab'd the TIL and BIL rods.

>>63857349
lol, lmao even

>>63857920
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrdldVhfbaU

>>63849268
Declaration of war is so 39'

>>63857697
>let us live in the land we inhabited since before Jesus Christ was born
>insane

>>63858001
Shhh, you’ll bring out the funny hats who lie and say that modern Israelis are the same as the ones from the Bible and not lying little scumfucks deceiving everyone.

>>63857345
It's a chemical laser, so surely it's just refilling a fuel tank?
Regardless, it was ineffective just because the tech wasn't there yet. If it worked there'd be more of them, simple as.

>>63849345
>who is funding terrorism in the Middle East
SAUDI ARABIA

>>63854585
>barely anything sticking out above.
What did he mean by this?

>>63857941
Jesus

>>63849259 (OP)
It was way too big for what it was capable of. Sure, it worked, but it would require complete air superiority, heavy SEAD operations, and good weather to really be effective. Even then, its general inability to target fast, agile targets generally limit it to being used against exclusively ballistic missiles in their launch/boost phase.

>>63854813
>was
correct.
>>63857722
>So you're telling me there's an absolute fuckhuge volume of air within a US carrier?
chad_yes.png
>Have you ever been inside a supercarrier
Yes, but i do not see how this is relevant. I can read engineering drawings just fine and they're more useful.
>Do you have any idea how many bulkheads there are?
These bulkheads are quite thin.
Did you ever ask yourself why Phalanx CIWS are not loaded with high explosive fragmentation ammo, but rather armor piercing incindiary?
Soviet anti-ship missiles in the 70's grew up to 7 tons in weight, with massive hardened steel warhead casings. To even have a chance to crack those, armor piercing was required.
Do you seriously think a whimy little sheet metal bulkhead is going to stop a 7 ton missile with a hardened penetrator tip going Mach 3?
No, it's going straight thru the fucking ship like in the video I posted. Do you think other ships do not have bulkheads?
Every ship has 9001 bulkheads.

>>63860870
There is more volume of ship below water than above.
Think about it, water has a density of 1. If a ship has a density above 1, it floats. The lower the density, the higher it sits in the water.
The density of a battleship is like 0.6.
The density of a carrier is *MUCH* lower because it has zero armor, so much higher air to steel ratio.
You can visually SEE right away that a carrier cannot really have any armor due to how fucking high they sit in the water.

>>63856967
>forced regime change
>stabilise
When has this ever worked?
>>63857349
This anon gets it.
>>63857920
Where is your rebuttal?

>>63849298
To sieze control over a strategically vital region and its resources while denying them to rival powers
Here in Putins brave new multipolar world there are no more international laws and thus no more reason for the west to play nice or hold back
Don't call it a grave, this is the future you chose

>>63862404
>Do you seriously think a whimy little sheet metal bulkhead is going to stop a 7 ton missile with a hardened penetrator tip going Mach 3?
Do you seriously think the job of a bulkhead is to stop missiles?

>>63849298
All those missiles falling on tel aviv behind iron dome, david sling, arrow 2, arrow 3, thaad were sold to russia and were going to be falling in kyiv next months making the us look like cuckholds for falling to even have a proper defense against such thirdie weapon in europe.

The sale of Fath 360 rockets from iran to russia is nothing more than a prep for bigger rocket sales.

And the fact is that thaad & patriot are memes and arrow 2 & 3 not really economically.

>>63860609
Kek

>>63849298
Mostly to degrade Russia and China's influence in the region. Notice how neither is getting involved? They are hoping Iran comes to the negotiating table so they can cash in on the rebuild.