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US successfully tests shooting down ballistic missile off the coast of Hawaii
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| 08/30/2017
| Daniella Diaz
Posted on 08/30/2017 12:25:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
To: Col Frank Slade
Latonja Martin/Digital/Missile Defense Agency A medium-range ballistic missile target is launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii.
To: SeekAndFind
"Earlier this year, our customer requested an enhanced capability to deal with a sophisticated medium-range ballistic missile threat," he said in a statement "We did all this -- the analysis, coding and testing -- in seven months; a process that normally takes one to two years."Great but, it it deployed already? This really sounds like an R&D success not a fleetwide upgrade.
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posted on
08/30/2017 12:28:56 PM PDT
by
pfflier
To: SeekAndFind
The Democrat party and msm said president Reagan was nuts.
They can esad.
5.56mm
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posted on
08/30/2017 12:29:27 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: pfflier
I think we see some shootdowns of Fat Boy’s space toys soon.
To: SeekAndFind
If we could design a missile to do loops over North Korea and then return, that would be cool.
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posted on
08/30/2017 12:33:35 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(It's not antifa, it's actually antifafa. Antifa Fascists.)
To: M Kehoe
The Democrat party and msm said president Reagan was nuts.
They can esad.
Bears repeating!!!
All we heard was “Nut job Reagan and his Star Wars fantasies were going to ruin the economy.”
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posted on
08/30/2017 12:34:10 PM PDT
by
BobinIL
To: SeekAndFind
Keep ships close off shore and take them out in boost phase...when they are most vulnerable.
Of course it is hard to determine where the missile is heading during boost phase.
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posted on
08/30/2017 12:37:34 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(Don't give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to be freeloaders.)
To: SeekAndFind
Great chance to have some real life testing by using this to shoot down fat boys missiles.
To: SeekAndFind
Another brilliant Trump move in the 3D chess game he’s playing with China.
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posted on
08/30/2017 12:40:17 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
To: Col Frank Slade; raygunfan; Larry Lucido; Gamecock; KC_Lion; FredZarguna; PROCON
It’s ridicurous!
I’m not taking any advice from some broad from New Jersey!!!
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posted on
08/30/2017 12:40:32 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
To: SeekAndFind
[ Latonja Martin/Digital/Missile Defense Agency A medium-range ballistic missile target is launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii. ]
Cough. Cough.
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posted on
08/30/2017 12:42:26 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
To: SeekAndFind
Talk about mission creep. The lowly humble destroyer is tasked with just about everything.
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posted on
08/30/2017 12:45:53 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: BobinIL
Excellent point.
I remember .
To: Defiant
We could design a missile to take out a ballistic missile in boost phase and then return home to be re-used.
Just a small round fired from an interceptor would destroy a fragile ballistic missile....it’s a huge tank of volatile fuel.
A very high speed rocket drone with retractable wings and a gun...and a small turbofan for the return trip. They developed small turbofans for the jetpacks that never caught on.
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posted on
08/30/2017 12:46:17 PM PDT
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Bobalu
(Don't give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to be freeloaders.)
To: SeekAndFind
Thank God for President Reagan's vision. He got Hell for "Star Wars" as the Democrats have no problem with other countries increasing their Nuclear Missile capabilities.
I should say that no defense will be 100% and our enemies need to know what will come to them in response to any attack.
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posted on
08/30/2017 12:46:35 PM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: BobinIL
Nut job Reagan and his Star Wars fantasies were going to ruin the economy. Did a good job ruining the Soviet economy ...
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posted on
08/30/2017 12:47:54 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
To: All
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posted on
08/30/2017 12:49:31 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
To: central_va
During WWWII we built warships of 7400 tons, tasked them with doing almost anything, and called them “light cruisers”.
Today, we build warships of 9600 tons, task them with doing almost anything, and call them “destroyers”.
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posted on
08/30/2017 12:51:57 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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