The Missile Lesson the West Can’t Ignore

[M14 Shooter]

Yes, they could use them in the field.

You're lying.

 

[Kruska]

Yes, they could use them in the field.

You know the Joints Chief of Staff studied and rejected tactical nukes in Korea.

They did in Vietnam as well.

Yes, China possessed nuclear ballistic weapons in 1966
Following their first atomic test in 1964, China conducted its first successful guided missile nuclear weapon test on October 27, 1966. They also tested a hydrogen bomb theory that same year, on December 28, 1966

Second Artillery Corps (Missiles - Chinese tech) was officially established on July 1966

As for tactical nukes: Russian tech.
Special Artillery Corps was established, on June,1958

 

[jacksonlamb]

 

[Failzero]

You're lying.

They were barely able to miniaturize them to adapt for clunky unreliable pre Medium Range Rockets modified for almost medium range capability ( Thus they perhaps with a super human effort might have hit Anchorage or Seattle , but more likely Tokyo or Seoul and perhaps Guam )

 

[M14 Shooter]

They were barely able to miniaturize them to adapt for clunky unreliable pre Medium Range Rockets modified for almost medium range capability

Well, yeah. Testing a nuclear device attached to a missile adapted for that testing is a far cry from fielding an operational nuclear platform. The idea China possessed - or could possess - the capability to provide a nuclear response, 1965-1967, to our use of tactical weapons against massed Chinese troops in Vietnam is laughable.

 

[toobfreak]

The Missile Lesson the West Can’t Ignore​

I think it less of being an ignored matter and more one of profitability.

There is big money to be made buying 10 million dollar bombs from Raytheon.
There is little money to be made from making thousands of low-tech drones with wood propellers.

Our generals would laugh at anyone offering such a weapon! For one thing, what would we do with them? The US military still feels relatively immune to territorial attack here on our mainland, so our military is primarily designed as an /offensive/ tool. Wood drones are something we might laugh by the hundreds if, say, we were at war with Canada or Mexico and fighting a border skirmish.

Our generals want space-based weapons they can launch from the moon and hit a postage stamp here on Earth--- pure bragging rights.

More to the point: the IRGC is dug in like ticks everywhere, impossible to locate from the sky, with a cache of small weapons and rockets they can shoulder fire or launch from the pack of a PU backed out from a garage then moved. Even drones won't do any good there. Iranian drones have been effective only because their attacks have been both far and wide and indiscriminent.

The only way to deal with that really is to fight a real war, get dirty, put boots on the ground and take that battle straight to them.