Posted on 04/26/2017 8:36:24 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
US test-fires ICBM traveling 4,000 miles to South Pacific
Published April 26, 2017 Fox News
The U.S. Air Force test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile which traveled over 4,000 miles before splashing down in the South Pacific after launching early Wednesday from a base in California.
The nuclear-capable missile was unarmed, according to the Air Force, and comes amid increasing tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
The Minuteman III missile blasted off at 12:03 a.m. Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
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This is exactly what Trump is doing. He isn’t calling a bluff, he knows the bluff. 100% guaranteed Kim Jung dung will be gone in the coming months if not weeks......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnXgVcrcyWM
Some of that and some of “Clinton made them fly the same route night after night and eventually the AAA along the route brought an F-117 down. Even “dumb” flak and radar-less AA guns can bring down an airplane when it keeps flying a predictable path. In this case, a 1961 (yes, Vietnam War era) SA-3 Goa missile, the old fire-farting-telephone-pole that was the bane of B-52s over North Vietnam, was used to shoot it down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown
The radar part of the story back then wasn’t the VVLA idea but that the weapons bays and landing gear doors were detectable when open if you modified the frequency of your radar system. The 117 wasn’t completely invisible on Soviet radar sets to begin with, it was just difficult to “see” and hard to get a missile lock on at any significant distance. The modifications to the Soviet radars let them get a lock when the weapon bay doors were open and then allow them to track the vague radar return remaining with the doors closed on the predictable flight path. Once they “knew” a particular patch of radar “clutter” on screen was a 117, they would single it out.
The less stealthy F-22 is even more visible to those modifications and our adversaries have been shipping radars with that function from the factory for a while now: https://news.usni.org/2014/07/29/chinese-russian-radars-track-see-u-s-stealth
The B2 is far more stealthy, but the Australians discovered the VVLA thing - the B2 is detectable by the “hole” in the overlaid coverage you’re not getting signals from. A (real or virtual) very large array of radars plus a computer to process the returns equals one localized B2. Like I said, it’s not good enough for a missile lock at current, but it’s good enough to vector fighters to and to tell AA guns what volume of space to fill with flak.
Basically, strategic stealth no longer exists. Tactical stealth, i.e., “you can’t get missile lock on me” is still a thing and is still worth doing. Few things are more disheartening than dumping your entire seeker missile load at someone only to have the missiles lose lock and wander off.
Rome doesn’t troll with ICBM launches.
Much bigger than just DPRK.
MOAR WAOR!
DJT may have launched another ICBM from Vandenburg to spook Kimmy. I saw it
Well, then a drone would do.
Five years before I viewed the up-close OT shot as a launch officer, I was a Marine sergeant stationed at Barstow CA on the high desert.
One evening, looking to the west we saw the double shot where they launched two missiles simultaneously. There were a lot of pictures of those birds flying out over the ocean but the view 100+ miles away on the desert was just as impressive, changing colors, forming ring clouds and you could see the long arc heading south over the pacific. Didn’t realize that five years later I would be witnessing it up close as an AF missileer.
The Minuteman III s#its and gets. That sucker moves.
Navy flight-tests 4 sub-launched Trident II ballistic missiles - UPI.com
www.upi.com/Defense-News/.../Navy...tests-sub...Trident...missiles/6801487344394/
Feb 17, 2017 - A U.S. Navy submarine has conducted four successful Trident II D ballistic missile test flights over a three-day period.
Operational Range:
More than 7,456 miles (12,000 km)[6][7] (exact is classified)[8]
Below is the speed of our Navy’s newest UGM-133A Trident II, or Trident D5. The Navy fired 4 of these off shore by Vandenberg in Febuary, this year.
UGM-133A Trident II, Speed: Approximately, 18,030 mph (29,020 km/h) (Mach 24; 8,060 m/s)[1](terminal phase).
Range: Operational Range:
More than 7,456 miles (12,000 km)[6][7] (exact is classified)[8].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGM-133_Trident_II
What we need to do is fly one of those over Pyongyang with words painted on the underside in Korean...
“If you can read this, you’re f**ked”.
Most of our drones are slow, very much subsonic things. Guess who crippled the UCAV programs that would have given us fast combat drones?
No, what we need to do is perform a demonstration strike and put our captured ship out of her misery of being paraded as a metal POW - blow up the USS Pueblo and end her suffering.
“No, what we need to do is perform a demonstration strike and put our captured ship out of her misery of being paraded as a metal POW - blow up the USS Pueblo and end her suffering.”
I agree.
It only took 65 of them to do what 1 fighter bomber could have done in Syria to one airport, at only 1 million a pop, real bargain.
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