Posted on 09/08/2017 8:21:08 PM PDT by topher
A submarine would launch an SLBM counter-strike.
I believe the case has been made to shoot down anything that is launched by North Korea. If we cannot inspect the contents of their ICBMs, they will be shot out of the skies. We cannot trust they are safe and the boost phase is the easiest time to take them out. The faster these things go, the harder it is to shoot them down. The shoot down has to come early.
Maybe it was just too nutty a post...
I hope China and Russia realize that they are playing with fire right now. Donald Trump will take action to protect the US as well as South Korea and Japan.
People do not realize that in World War II, we targeted the civilian populations of Germany and Japan.
There was a bombing raid on Hamburg that created a terrible firestorm.
General Curtis LeMay had the B29 bombers stripped so that they could carry more fire bombs.
I believe there was a firebombing raid on Tokyo that killed more people than were INITIALLY killed at Hiroshima. The number that sticks in my mind 40,000 dead on the Tokyo raid.
I kind of figured, I am a freight forwarder for eBay HK.
I hope what you are saying is true. It could then be ready during Trump’s presidency, including right now...
It's good to know you received the latest Pentagon tactical plan. The Japs, Koreans and Americans stationed in South Korea will love the radiation poisoning from the nuclear fallout. /sarc
As other FReepers have said: "Yeah, nuke 'em baby. Turn the entire country into a glass parking lot."
Read your link again, slowly.
The U.S. would impose sanctions. /s
Congress would try to ram through Amnesty.
Nuclear fallout?
If our planes in So. Korea or offshore are on “Ready Alert”, they can be airborne in minutes. They can carry anti-missile missiles that can go hundreds of miles long and even up into the outer limits of the atmosphere.
Lookup “Bold Orion” and see if that’s the program in the 50’s that used airborne missiles to intercept a satellite in space.
We have all kinds of goodies in our defense bag, some systems going back over 40-50 years.
Our rockets can use a conventional explosive head, a nuclear warhead, or a “pellet/steel ball or arrows” warhead (thousands of them), to take out a missile in flight.
They can also take out squadrons of enemy aircraft or small attack boats.
All one has to do is to go back to older magazines on anti-missile defense (Popular Mechanics, for one), to see what actually existed in our arsenal years ago, and what was underway re development, and ideas for future weapons (laser guns, laser-armed missiles, sonic guns, etc).
Sometimes MIT or Harvard actually produce a patriotic American who is interested in defending out country, not selling it out.
>>>I’m in Hong Kong this week.
I’ve had about 15 people ask if I’m scared<<<
I hope you told them you would only be scared if you were in Chicago with the weekend coming up,
But defense is only part of the equation. Counterstrike is the other half. You can only play defense so much, then you've got to prevent them from launching any more.
“And South Korea will definitely have casualties because we have no silver bullet for the artillary problem.”
SK has had 60 years to figure that out. Not our problem.
Does the article mention that there are only 20 interceptor missiles in the Alaskan battery?
Does it mention that for each missile NK launches, we would fire 3 or 4 interceptors?
Does it ask you to do the math on how many NK would have to fire before our interceptors are used up?
Does the article thank 0bama for gutting the interceptor program?
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You forgot “and blame Trump for provoking Kim into taking the only action he felt he had left”.
I don’t know if this is accurate because I never heard of this site before, but I found this interesting..
The 20,000 artillary tubes has been overstated,
Read Here:
http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/08/09/north-korea-level-seoul/
My prayers are for the people of Japan and Taiwan to emerge from this unscathed. Kindness matters.
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