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Posted by: ISAACT SMITH
Well then why dont we shoot down their ships before the glas us .ans come on 1 they couldnt shoot down 200 nukes ,and I know that theirs more than that in the world. 2 if the shoot it will explode and wed both be hit with it. 3 we could put on an enemy ship then dock it in High charity
Let us break down your naivety and ignorance in the simplest manner.
1. First and foremost, somehow shooting down the escorts for an apparently low orbit High Charity. Most Nukes in the Big Fives arsenals, believe it or not, are not made to target orbital targets. They are Ballistic, and have no maneuvering power(we will get back to this in a second), as well as being very hard to retarget. Every missile in the Big 5's arsenals have a predetermined target, and due to the nature of its intended flight path, you have to do a whole lot of math to make sure it gets to its target.
So your probably asking yourself, couldn't we get all our scientists to retarget our missiles really fast(as in a couple of hours) and shoot them at those Covie Bastards? Well most ICBMs are not made to escape earths gravity, they are built to reach a certain height then fall down in an arc, sort of like a giant rocket propelled mortar, except instead of hitting something on the tactical battlefield, it hits cities on the other side of the world.
Even if you could(somehow) get ICBM's into LEO, and somehow get the math down perfectly so they would hit the Covenants current location(Assuming the covies haven't reduced our planets surface to dirty radioactive glass by then) you then encounter two problems; 1 Their ships can move 2 they can shoot our missiles down, and 3 they have shields If they move their ships(Trivial really) then those missiles just got wasted. If they decide to hit the slow moving missiles with any number of Energy weapons, then those Nukes just got slagged. Or if they are sadistic bastards, they will just let the nukes hit thier shields. Our missiles are damn right slow in space fighting, the Covenant would be able to do what ever the hell they want before our arsenal could get close.
Hell, our nukes won't even do much in space anyways, as they are not made to go off in a vacuum.
2. Shoot a Nuclear missile with plasma and it won't explode, just get melted/vaporised. Warheads need a very specific way to go off, just shooting one with even kinetic weapons won't make it properly detonate, it would just make it a dirty bomb of sorts(that is if your using AT weapons, small arms won't do -blam!- to a warhead).
Also even if your laughable idea of a nuke managing to detonate if it was hit by a plasma weapon were to happen, it still wouldn't do much. Hell not even the biggest like the Tsar Bomba(Which was too big to be mounted on a missile mind you) wouldn't do much besides wiping out our Electrical Infrastructure.
3. *Sigh* where to begin; first and foremost, where are we getting such a ship? Launch a Soyuz at a Covie corvette and pray to god that the corvettes crew will die by laughing at the little dinky thing? Have the Crew of the ISS try to board one of the Carriers? The only way we would be able to get a nuke onto High Charity is if one of the Covie Captains landed his ship somewhere on earth(Or parked above a city) and handed the keys to humanity.
And since such a scenario is as unlikely to happen as a Soyuz crew managing to take over a Corvette, or the ISS overpowering a Carrier, its safe to say we are -blam!-.