A New Spy Plane Could Spot Targets For The U.S. Army’s Thousand-Mile Weapons

[rangerrebew]

A New Spy Plane Could Spot Targets For The U.S. Army’s Thousand-Mile Weapons
David Axe
 

The U.S. Army has new, experimental spy planes and the service is flying them over the western Pacific near China.

It’s pretty obvious why. The Army is trying to figure out its role in a possible war between the United States and China, and buying high-tech new equipment to support that role. Giant artillery pieces. Super-fast rockets.

But all the fancy new cannons and missiles need targets to shoot at. New surveillance planes could help spot those targets.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2020/08/13/a-new-spy-plane-could-spot-targets-for-the-us-armys-thousand-mile-weapons/#57736c7d2b87

[bigheadfred]

If they need a target I suggest a Biolab in Wuhan.

[EdinVA]

So, we mothballed the SR-71 because we had satellites but now we need a new spy plane?
We dumped mobile and effective battleships because they were not effective and have replaced them with them with thousand mile weapons that we cannot get any closer than 1000 miles to the target?
We spend years and billions developing cruise missiles with pin point accuracy, super high speed and large warhead but developed a thousand mile cannon?
I want our troops to have all we can provide but are we being played again?

[bigheadfred]

So, we mothballed the SR-71 because we had satellites but now we need a new spy plane?
We dumped mobile and effective battleships because they were not effective and have replaced them with them with thousand mile weapons that we cannot get any closer than 1000 miles to the target?
We spend years and billions developing cruise missiles with pin point accuracy, super high speed and large warhead but developed a thousand mile cannon?
I want our troops to have all we can provide but are we being played again?

I don't know about being played. More like beat into submission with $500/each hammers.

[Slide Rule]

If they need a target I suggest a Biolab in Wuhan.

Or Portland.

Slide Rule

[bigheadfred]

Or Portland.

Slide Rule

Yeah. No. Practice fire only. One shot, maybe two. Anything else would be a waste of ammo.