P 00000

[The Great Quail]

> You all watching CNN? See how sexy that Tomahawk missile is? So swift and
> smooth and ACCURATE. I'm even starting to get sucked in. Or I was until I
> remembered the 00000 launch and was reminded how fucking perverse it really
> is. 

Well, I'm not sure that the Navy had any naked young sailors strapped to the
missile, but the Tomahawk is nowhere nearly as accurate as the Navy claims.
In fact, the other branches of the service have reservations about it which
run deeper than traditional inter-service rivalry. Of course, they've had
twelve years to improve on it, but hearing the one CNN Navy correspondent
claim a TLAM can navigate into a particular window was simply propaganda.

Still, uh, they're a bit more accurate than the V-2.

--Quail

PS: For more fun information about the weapons the U.S. forces will be
using, I recommend Rick Atkinson's "Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian
Gulf War." It's fair, balanced and thorough. (Though computer advancements
have linked up out troops in ways unknown in the Gulf War, and "blue on
blue" fratricide will hopefully be diminished through new thermal and
electromagnetic flash emitters.)