Re: Common Aero Vehicle (CAV)

From: stork (tbandrow_at_mightyware.com)
Date: 03/21/05 

Date: 21 Mar 2005 12:31:18 -0800

TJB replied to:

> Is it really worth that much (a sub-orbital delivery vehicle is
> going to be *extremely* pricy) to deliver a 1000lb payload (equal
> to about 4x Small-Diameter Bombs)?

You have to think of the expense of basing squadrons of fighters in
forward bases all over the world. Why do all of that when you can just
launch something directly from CONUS and avoid the whole basing
problem.