(from Airbus, of course)
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Thanks Airbus chair(?)
I thought that they called them seats on planes?
France already has them, though?
They have strategic ones, not tactical ones. Tactical ones are those mini-nukes that stupid people think they can use without it becoming a proper nuclear war real quick. Everyone else (including the French) thinks they are a waste of money.
I'd argue if you bomb your enemy who has mini-nukes and regular nukes, their next step of escalation would be to use the mini-nukes. On the other had, if they only have regular nukes they would have to skip this middle step and use those instead. Ergo, only having regular nukes is a bigger deterrence than having both. That, and you have some unwasted money left for education and healthcare.
Some people calculate the other way round. If the opponent only has strategic nuclear weapons it's safe to use tactical nuclear weapons because the opponent doesn't want to choose total anhilation.
Those people are morons. When has there ever been an instance where a massive escalation was met with a similar response? If Gondwana massacres a city of 50,000, they Laurentia will massacre a city of 100,000. Tactical nukes will always be answered by strategic nukes
Plus, there is no way to differentiate a tactical nuke from a strategic nuke until it detonates, and everyone else will have fired their strategic nukes at you by that point.
But then a conventional payload is equally indistinguishable.
Yep, Submarine launched ballistic missiles from Arianegroup, which is joint venture by Safran and (surprise) Airbus.
And air launched missiles by MBDA. Which is a joint venture of BAE, Leonardo and I'll let you guess who the remaining 37% share.
Waste of money and this chair clearly doesn't understand game theory.
The chair is probably just expecting UK to forget the game theory.
Is there any realistic scenario where using one of those is not going to end up with the other side responding with their big boys? Strategic nukes at least have a real deterrent effect.
Most exciting time to be alive.