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Reusable ICBM

Lowering the Costs of Armageddon
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You may have heard that if we were to throw away an airplane every time we fly on one, then air travel would be horrendously expensive. The fact that we re-use airplanes after using them, helps keeps costs down.

This thinking has recently been extended to reusable rockets. By making rockets reusable, they are now much less expensive to launch than before.

Likewise, if we throw away an ICBM every time we use one, then it makes WW3 much more expensive from an arms budget standpoint. What's needed are reusable ICBMs.

The idea is that the ICBM is composed of a rocket booster which lofts the warhead up high in the sky, separating and releasing the warhead payload which then reaches apogee before coming down on its target. The separated rocket booster can then retropropulsively land back on the ground, and be readied for re-use.

This can help lower the costs of WW3.

(We won't worry about how to make WW4 cheaper, since that war will only be fought with sticks and stones.)

sanman, Nov 28 2024

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       So much better for the environment too [+]
21 Quest, Nov 28 2024
  

       Maybe it would be more environmentally friendly if aeroplanes were made single-use. That way people would think twice before hopping on a flight to some dreary destination.
pocmloc, Nov 29 2024
  

       I think Elon is already working with the next US administration to ensure we will be able to reuse the lift stages of our nuclear (only one U in nuclear) bombs.   

       What the lift stages will return to is still up in the air. Literally.
minoradjustments, Nov 29 2024
  

       Enthusiastic bun for this [+].   

       Extra points for retropropulsively; it runs right off the Scrabble board and hits 3 Triple Word Scores.
whatrock, Dec 02 2024
  
      
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