(Amerika) Streitkräfte der USA - allg. Sammelthread

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Dreht sich primär um die USAF, aber auch um die USN:

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Air Force Wants 'No-Warning' Strike Force

InsideDefense.com NewsStand | Elaine Grossman | February 03, 2006

The Air Force in March will launch a two-year review of weapon concepts that could allow the United States to respond to surprise threats by destroying targets halfway around the world within 60 minutes of an order to strike, according to defense officials and documents.

The Pentagon effort to field a new “Prompt Global Strike” capability by 2020 comes as defense officials also prepare a nearer-term project to equip the Navy's submarine-launched Trident D-5 nuclear missile with a conventional warhead ( Inside the Pentagon, Jan. 26, p3). If Congress allows the Defense Department to begin work this year on the $500 million conventional Trident effort, a small number of the interim weapons could be fielded on submarines within four years, according to defense sources. ...

Weiß nicht, ob mir das gefallen soll. Damit werden auch verschleierte Erstschlagsszenarien bzw. derartige Mißverständnisse befördert. Einhergehen müsste also zumindest auch ein verstärktes Abstimmungsregime zwischen den nuklear bewaffneten Staaten, zumindest zwischen den USA, Russland und China.