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To: ColdOne

If it landed near Japan then it’s not an ICBM.


11 posted on 07/05/2017 4:02:41 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: MeganC

It has been confirmed to be.


13 posted on 07/05/2017 4:08:56 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: MeganC

If you can throw a football fifty yards down field, how far will it go if you throw it nearly straight up?


15 posted on 07/05/2017 4:14:06 PM PDT by null and void (This is how socialists work: Erase the past, Bankrupt the present, Steal from the future.)
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To: MeganC; ColdOne

Megan is technically correct.

It is not an “Intercontinental Ballistic Missile”, it’s an IRBM - Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile.

The fact that its trajectory is highly eccentric with a subterranean perigee means that it’s a ballistic missile, just not with the long range needed to move between continents.

But it’s close, and possibly scalable to a multistage ICBM.

Solution: MOAB their entire launch site and manufacturing infrastructure.

Don’t apologize.

Don’t worry about China’s response. They won’t start WWIV over it.


22 posted on 07/05/2017 4:33:25 PM PDT by Regulator
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