Credit where credit is due
August 15th, 2008 at 10:02am Wally Haas
This morning’s story about the Ingersoll fine came about because frequent guest columnist Bill Berg, who used to work for Ingersoll, called to tell me about it. He followed the phone call with an e-mail that included a link to a story on an Indian Web site.
Berg called again today and said there’s a bigger story than what was published. Can you figure out what it is?
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1. Spade | August 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Reducing nosecone weight reduces the aggregate payload of current and future tactical, short and medium range missiles.
This increases the distance to a target (range of the missile) and will help reduce CAP or Circular Error Probability. A simpler way of saying “CEP” is that you will have a higher probability to come closer to the actual target, reducing the destructive force necessary to destroy at target with a nuclear device. This “advantage” will also lead to reduce nuclear payload weights (the weight of the actual nuclear weapon) which allows for smaller more compact weapons to be deployed. Smaller weapons means smaller nuclear cores which increase the “number” of nukes India could build This advance will allow a significant advantage over other nuclear weapons competitors like Pakistan and will spur Indian MIRV development efforts. A MIRV payload (multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle ) copuled with a desired for greater regional dominance will speed the development of longer range ICBM’s in the Indian Nuclear Fleet.
Of course the bottom line is that is could help spark a heightened nuclear arm’s race between India and Pakistan.
More interestingly, though, it will spark more tensions between China and India.
Many other things which a 5-axis carbon fiber laying machine could also be used for; like stealth aircraft, for instance.
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