Demon Lord Razgriz wrote: |
Most ABMs are going after relatively predictable RVs, V-1 maneuvers to throw those off.
That is going to be heavy. Very, very heavy, and of only marginal effectiveness
As for bombers, SAMs & Fighters will kill them before they get near the target.
Nope. A Mach-3+ bomber at 80,000+ feet is very hard to kill. Even before countermeasures (passive and active) come into play the most advanced SAM to date - the Russian S-400 - would only have a pk of .15 . Figure that going down to .03 after ECM and DAMS are used. So 20 SAMs per bomber (for a 50% chance at a kill), only in the time from when you have a lock to when the SAM site is a crater is less than the time needed to volley the missiles up that high, and I can always turn to avoid sites that are not next to targets. I'm going to be able to carry Everything from Skybolt to gravity bombs.
The V-2 can get it up in orbit. The First stage is a modified SRB from the Space Shuttle, 2nd stage has a Titan II-class engine with more fuel, and the third stage I'm still working on. So if that ain't enough to get the bus up there, tell me what can.
Well With say 7500 kg per V-1 (low-ball) that's 52500 kg for the V-1s. Figure another 20000 kg for the bus, and you're in the 75000 kg bracket. That means you're down to: Ares V. Saturn V, N-1, or Energia. All liquid fueled (and thus can't be kept fueled constantly), all very big. All very 'soft' targets. A good friend of mine, Eric has a name for something like that: IPBM InterPlanetary Ballistic Missile. After talking it over with him, Eric says [T]there is
no way you're keeping the launch site for something the size of a Saturn V hard enough to survive an attack from the Galm Team."
V-1 aren't released coming down, they're released up in orbit all at the same time outwards from the bus.
That's going to be a bitch to configure and keep accurate