Let's pin this tail directly on the donkey at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Posted on 11/09/2010 12:22:58 PM PST by tired1
The Pentagon Tuesday said it was trying to determine if a missile was launched Monday off the coast of Southern California and who might have launched it.
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Check it out on YouTube, then read the comments...funny and scary at the same time.
Maybe it was Iran trying to scare the POTUS.
China, thanks to qe2. Lots of money lost.
The next question is “Where did it land and can it be recovered?”
Swamp gas!
Sonar picked up Russians singing.
The real word is, “won’t.”
Imagine this exact same scenario in the early 60’s. I think the response would have been, I dunno, different.
If our government did not do this, and Dr. No did not do this, and it’s not Iron Man, then this is a VERY big deal.
No the next question is where is the next one going to land down town LA the LA -Long beach harbor Hoover damn ?
I recall some kid landing a Cessna in downtown Moscow (USSR), many General’s ‘heads rolled’.
If the US were nuked, does anyone believe that Obama would retaliate with nukes?
I don’t, and neither does Russia or China or Iran or NoKo.
China sending us a message after Obummer’s visit to India?
China’s anti-ship missile not a threat: Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma
Dismissing China’s anti-ship missile programme as a threat to Indian warships, Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma today said it would be a difficult task to even spot the vessels in the vast expanse of high seas.
“Targeting ships at high seas is not an easy task or as simple as land warfare,” Admiral Verma told reporters here on the sidelines of a seminar on aircraft carriers organised by the National Maritime Foundation here.
“There are hundreds and thousands of ships in the sea at any given time. It is extremely important to spot the ship before targeting it. There are limitations in terms of maritime reconnaissance and long-range searches,” Verma said when asked about the threat posed by Chinese Anti-ship Ballistic Missile Programme.
He said it was “a complex problem” to use a conventional missile against a moving target at high seas.
Earlier, addressing the seminar, the Navy Chief said aircraft carriers were expensive and there were questions on their affordability and survivability due to their large size while at sea.
“Some even talk about carrying out land-based missile attacks against an aircraft carrier. We must weigh this against the difficulties of targeting a mobile target out at sea,” he said, noting that carriers can move 600 nautical miles a day, which translates into one million square nautical miles of ocean area which an adversary has to search.
China’s anti-ship missile not a threat: Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma - India - The Times of India
Maybe the Russians launched it to send a message that we are, in fact, defenseless!
Its a weather balloon, ignited by swamp gas
A careful government investigation determined that this did not happen, and that a spark in the center fuel tank was the actual cause of the explosion.
Because we don't have terrorists launching missiles right off our coasts. That doesn't happen. Ever. I mean it.
“The system worked!” < /Napoleon the XIV >
/sarc
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