Before reading anything else about the topic I’m going to blame Dick Cheney and Robert Gates. why did those two demand that the Columbia class have a pool instead of 8 more tubes…
February 6, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Before reading anything else about the topic I’m going to blame Dick Cheney and Robert Gates. why did those two demand that the Columbia class have a pool instead of 8 more tubes…
Sorry, this is a bit of a tangent but I just looked at the Columbia class timeline and TEN YEARS???? I knew naval procurement was fucked but ten years to build a boomer???
February 6, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Sorry, this is a bit of a tangent but I just looked at the Columbia class timeline and TEN YEARS???? I knew naval procurement was fucked but ten years to build a boomer???
I think that even if the US goal was to maintain the current credible deterrent, they’d still need to invest quite a bit just to keep the warheads from decaying (and to keep the delivery systems from becoming obsolete)
February 6, 2026 at 8:22 PM
I think that even if the US goal was to maintain the current credible deterrent, they’d still need to invest quite a bit just to keep the warheads from decaying (and to keep the delivery systems from becoming obsolete)