Trump says We Have Much Better Weapons than Russia

JimBowie1958

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And he is right, but we don't show them off till we have to use them in war, and that is something few in the world understand.

Trump: US has better weapons than the 'failed' Russian 'Skyfall' missile

The suspected nuclear explosion occurred Thursday off the coast of Russia's Nenoska Missile Test Site, an installation suspected of developing Russia's next generation of advanced missiles. Seven people were reportedly killed.


"The United States is learning much from the failed missile explosion in Russia," Trump tweeted Monday. "We have similar, though more advanced, technology. The Russian 'Skyfall' explosion has people worried about the air around the facility and far beyond. Not good!"

Russian media reported radiation briefly spiked to 200 times the normal rate, according to the New York Times, but these reports were later scrubbed from the websites of Severodvinsk, a small city located 25 miles away from the explosion in Russia's Archangel province. Fears over radiation poisoning caused a run on iodine by local residents, which can protect the thyroid gland from absorbing radiation.

Experts and intelligence officials believe the explosion was the result of a botched test of a nuclear-powered cruise missile known by NATO as the SSC-X-9 Skyfall.
We could completely destroy Russia and they wouldn't even know it was us that did it.

The United States has acquired technology that level entire cities and it will be completely masked with natural events. And we have had this technology for quite some time.

We just don't want to use it and kill millions of potential customers, lol.
 
If we have such great weapons, why haven't we won a war since WWII?


Bad political leadership, we are not really a serious country any more, and haven't been since...


at least the 70s.
 
But, I hope we are NOT developing nuclear powered cruise missiles. That sounds like a very bad idea.


I can see what Russia would go for it, but it is not for US.
 
There is no doubt that the U.S. has the best technology but Obama's policies still force Americans to hitch a ride on Russian junk if they want to get to the Space Station.
 
There is no doubt that the U.S. has the best technology but Obama's policies still force Americans to hitch a ride on Russian junk if they want to get to the Space Station.


True, but our failure in space policy goes back much further than that, and includes republican presidents.
 
They had a recent explosion in Russia that the Russian government is trying to hide.

Such occurrences are much more likely in Russia because they don’t have safety regulations. But in this country Donald Trump is trying to roll back safety regulations because one, it’s cheaper and two, it makes us more like Russia.
 
If we have such great weapons, why haven't we won a war since WWII?
US has won plenty of wars, you're probably conflating military objectives with political objectives.
Which wars have we won since WWII?
PG1 and Korea
Korea we fought to a stalemate, not a win. What’s PG1?
hahahahah----you don't know much about wars..
Persian Gulf War 1
.... most wars do not end in unconditional surrender..they have cease fires/armistices/etc--like PG1= a cease fire--but CLEARLY a win for the US = Iraq ejected from Kuwait
......our objective for the Korean War was to keep South Korea and eject the NKs from the south = mission completed/objective reached !!! NKs ejected from the south
On June 27, 1950, President Harry S. Truman announces that he is ordering U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the democratic nation in repulsing an invasion by communist North Korea.
Korean War:
US win
SK win
NK loss
China win
 
If we have such great weapons, why haven't we won a war since WWII?
US has won plenty of wars, you're probably conflating military objectives with political objectives.
Which wars have we won since WWII?
PG1 and Korea
Korea we fought to a stalemate, not a win. What’s PG1?
hahahahah----you don't know much about wars..
Persian Gulf War 1
.... most wars do not end in unconditional surrender..they have cease fires/armistices/etc--like PG1= a cease fire--but CLEARLY a win for the US
......our objective for the Korean War was to keep South Korea and eject the NKs from the south = mission completed/objective reached !!!
On June 27, 1950, President Harry S. Truman announces that he is ordering U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the democratic nation in repulsing an invasion by communist North Korea.
Korean War:
US win
SK win
NK loss
China win
The first Iraq war wasn’t a win, otherwise we wouldn’t have had to go back. Duh!
Ceasefire not even signed in Korea.
 
US has won plenty of wars, you're probably conflating military objectives with political objectives.
Which wars have we won since WWII?
PG1 and Korea
Korea we fought to a stalemate, not a win. What’s PG1?
hahahahah----you don't know much about wars..
Persian Gulf War 1
.... most wars do not end in unconditional surrender..they have cease fires/armistices/etc--like PG1= a cease fire--but CLEARLY a win for the US
......our objective for the Korean War was to keep South Korea and eject the NKs from the south = mission completed/objective reached !!!
On June 27, 1950, President Harry S. Truman announces that he is ordering U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the democratic nation in repulsing an invasion by communist North Korea.
Korean War:
US win
SK win
NK loss
China win
The first Iraq war wasn’t a win, otherwise we wouldn’t have had to go back. Duh!
Ceasefire not even signed in Korea.
hahhahahah
Korean War = win = objective completed
PG1 Iraqis ejected = win
again--most wars do not have total victory
 
US has won plenty of wars, you're probably conflating military objectives with political objectives.
Which wars have we won since WWII?
PG1 and Korea
Korea we fought to a stalemate, not a win. What’s PG1?
hahahahah----you don't know much about wars..
Persian Gulf War 1
.... most wars do not end in unconditional surrender..they have cease fires/armistices/etc--like PG1= a cease fire--but CLEARLY a win for the US
......our objective for the Korean War was to keep South Korea and eject the NKs from the south = mission completed/objective reached !!!
On June 27, 1950, President Harry S. Truman announces that he is ordering U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the democratic nation in repulsing an invasion by communist North Korea.
Korean War:
US win
SK win
NK loss
China win
The first Iraq war wasn’t a win, otherwise we wouldn’t have had to go back. Duh!
Ceasefire not even signed in Korea.
Korean War ended with an armistice
stop trying to pretend you know what you are talking about
 
But, I hope we are NOT developing nuclear powered cruise missiles. That sounds like a very bad idea.


I can see what Russia would go for it, but it is not for US.

It IS a very bad idea. If they are using radioactive substances to power the thing, how much of that radiation is hitting the atmosphere? If it is a closed system like on a carrier or submarine (but much smaller), it is still a nuclear powered missile.

Not only will you get the explosion from the warhead, but the nuclear system powering the missile will also be vaporized, meaning that at the minimum, you have a low yield nuclear dirty bomb.

But, if you know how nuclear bombs work, then you know that the reaction is started by an explosion. What could that mean? What if the exploding warhead turned the system powering the missile into a nuclear bomb?
 

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