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In reply to the discussion: Those whose jobs depend on maintaining, "The military/industrial/congressional complex." [View all]GGJohn
(9,951 posts)57. The point is that in a conventional war, Russia would lose and lose badly,
Russia most certainly wouldn't wipe America off the floor, in a nuclear war, there would be no winners, just a smoking ruin of a world.
WTH are you talking about not engineering the Saturn V rocket?
It was used by NASA to launch the Apollo crews into space and the moon,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V
The Saturn V (spoken as "Saturn five"
was an American human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1966 and 1973.[6] The three-stage liquid-fueled launch vehicle was developed to support the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon, and was later used to launch Skylab, the first American space station. The Saturn V was launched 13 times from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with no loss of crew or payload. The Saturn V remains the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and still holds records for the heaviest payload launched and largest payload capacity to low Earth orbit (LEO) of 310,000 pounds (140,000 kg).[4][5]
The largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, the Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, with Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM as the lead contractors. Von Braun's design was based in part on his work on the Aggregate series of rockets, especially the A-10, A-11, and A-12, in Germany during World War II.
To date, the Saturn V remains the only launch vehicle able to transport human beings beyond low Earth orbit. A total of 24 astronauts were launched to the Moon, three of them twice, in the four years spanning December 1968 through December 1972.
The largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, the Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, with Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM as the lead contractors. Von Braun's design was based in part on his work on the Aggregate series of rockets, especially the A-10, A-11, and A-12, in Germany during World War II.
To date, the Saturn V remains the only launch vehicle able to transport human beings beyond low Earth orbit. A total of 24 astronauts were launched to the Moon, three of them twice, in the four years spanning December 1968 through December 1972.
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Those whose jobs depend on maintaining, "The military/industrial/congressional complex." [View all]
another_liberal
Jan 2016
OP
Know Thy Enemy - Oligarchs, Corporations, Banks And Their Media Minions And MIC Henchmen
cantbeserious
Jan 2016
#1
Likely applies to all of the MIC. There would be so many jobs lost if world tensions
RKP5637
Jan 2016
#3
And if the one percent of our very rich didn't demand to live like Roman Emperors . . .
another_liberal
Jan 2016
#10
The US and Russia are the world's #1 and #2 top exporters of weapons of war, 31% US, 27% Russia
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2016
#8
Think of all the engineering genius, developmental investment, and production capacity wasted . . .
another_liberal
Jan 2016
#11
In both the US and in Russia. That's the part that is missing from your OP.
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2016
#13
Russia's a paper tiger who'd be nothing if not surrounded by countries lacking viable militaries.
cherokeeprogressive
Jan 2016
#21
I spent ten years in the US Military. Long enough to be unafraid of Russia.
cherokeeprogressive
Jan 2016
#23
Here's a hint for ya... re the last line of your post: Armies haven't marched for decades.
cherokeeprogressive
Jan 2016
#25
The point is we don't WANT to occupy Russia. To what end? Occupy Russia? IGNORE Russia.
cherokeeprogressive
Jan 2016
#59
Despite being government propaganda - when you waste money at the trillion dollar level
Rex
Jan 2016
#26