[Sky Captain]

That and why would the U.S. waste money in building a delivery system like that. It's a lot cheaper to use a Bomber or missles in a nuclear attack.

[Venom]

That and why would the U.S. waste money in building a delivery system like that. It's a lot cheaper to use a Bomber or missiles in a nuclear attack.

The "Star Wars" program was not really intended for nuclear strike. It was mainly devised to protect against nuclear strikes, destroy hostile space systems, and having the ability to deliver high powered, non nuclear weapons in a counter-attack. Weapons such as space based kinetic energy systems, which can pack enough power to make a 2,000 lb bomb look like a firecracker. In fact, with a large/dense enough projectile, you can attain energy releases comparable to small tactical nuclear weapons, but without the radiation hazard. Also considering most all of these systems were unmanned it wouldn't have been as expensive as you may think.

[xf15smdt]

i had heard of the "Star Wars" program. but i didn't know it was that powerful

[Tazuren]

i had heard of the "Star Wars" program. but i didn't know it was that powerful

What the Strategic Defence Inititive[SDI(Star Wars)] would've been is space baced X-ray lasers for use in destrying Soviet ICBMs. It never got off of paper , but scared the s#!+ out of the Soviet ruler at the time.

[Venom]

What the Strategic Defence Inititive[SDI(Star Wars)] would've been is space baced X-ray lasers for use in destrying Soviet ICBMs. It never got off of paper , but scared the s#!+ out of the Soviet ruler at the time.

What is funny is that elements of the Star Wars program still exist to this day. You know the ABL? That is one of the surviving ideas coming from the Star Wars program. Another idea that is still floating around is the KE projectile carrying satellites, although now they may replace satellites with ballistic missiles due to cost/weight/treaty issues. Though, the big problem with that is how to distinguish a conventional ballistic missile from a nuclear one...

[xf15smdt]

i found why it never happened.

The SALT II treaty (1979) prohibited the deployment of FOBS systems:

Each Party undertakes not to develop, test, or deploy:
(...)
© systems for placing into Earth orbit nuclear weapons or any other kind of weapons of mass destruction, including fractional orbital missiles;

[Tazuren]

i found why it never happened.

The SALT II treaty (1979) prohibited the deployment of FOBS systems:

Each Party undertakes not to develop, test, or deploy:
(...)
© systems for placing into Earth orbit nuclear weapons or any other kind of weapons of mass destruction, including fractional orbital missiles;

That deals with weapons. SDI was a space based ABM(Anti-Ballistic Missile) system. Ok, This discussion should be moved to a new topic as to not incur the wrath of the Ribbons.

[xf15smdt]

yea lets not let this get out of hand. ha ha ha

[Zaku]

Edited.

[infernal]

Here are some better secondary pics of the SOLG, including its explosion...

[AceofAces]

What are those rock shaped things the SOLG spits out of its loading tubes? I thought they might be burning up bits but it doesn't burn up until it's right next to the capital. Also, they stop coming when/if you destroy the loading tubes.

[Roaches]

Mind as well add more images instead of one blurry image.

[EstovakianHarrierPlus]

Nice screenshots Roaches!