[Col Frank Slade]

HELLO FAT BOY !!!!

[pfflier]

"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.

[M Kehoe]

The Democrat party and msm said president Reagan was nuts.

They can esad.

5.56mm

[Defiant]

If we could design a missile to do loops over North Korea and then return, that would be cool.

[Bobalu]

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.

[rigelkentaurus]

Great chance to have some real life testing by using this to shoot down fat boys missiles.

[bigbob]

Another brilliant Trump move in the 3D chess game he’s playing with China.

[central_va]

Talk about mission creep. The lowly humble destroyer is tasked with just about everything.

[shanover]

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.

[SaveFerris]

Slow-motion launch of SM-6 from the USS John Paul Jones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=ULiRGxCdLps

[dan on the right]

How about we “shoot down” some ballistic missiles as they sit on the ground in North Korea.

Probably easier to hit anyways.

[ETL]

From the campaign trail, 2008...

Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs

February 29, 2008 :: News
MissileThreat.com

A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense.

The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:

Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus4Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.

First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.[i.e. not win it]

Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

I will not weaponize space.

I will slow our development of future combat systems.

And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.

Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.

You know where I stand. I've fought for open, ethical and accountable government my entire public life. I don't switch positions or make promises that can't be kept. I don't posture on defense policy and I don't take money from federal lobbyists for powerful defense contractors. As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people. Thanks so much.

Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090412030633/http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp

"MissileThreat.com is a project of The Claremont Institute devoted to understanding and promoting the requirements for the strategic defense of the United States."
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[StolarStorm]

So awesome! I’ve been trying to get a job with Raytheon for a while now.

[LeoWindhorse]

http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/08/30/breaking-news/navy-conducts-successful-missile-test-off-kauai/

I swear they tested the other day also . It was unreported .
But I SAW the missile contrail , glowing in the sunset . Unmistakable ....

[2harddrive]

Here is a PARTIAL list of President Trump’s accomplishments in his first 7 months in office:

1. Supreme Court Judge Gorsuch
2. 59 missiles dropped in Syria
3. He took us out of TPP
4. Illegal immigration is now down 70%( the lowest in 17 years)
5. Consumer confidence highest since 2000 at index 125.6
6. Mortgage applications for new homes rise to a seven year high
7. Arranged from 7% to 24% Tariff on lumber from Canada
8. Bids for border wall are well underway
9. Pulled out of the lopsided Paris accord
10. Keystone pipeline approved
11. NATO allies boost spending by 4.3%
12. Allowing VA to terminate bad employees
13. Allowing private healthcare choices for veterans
14. More than 1,000,000 new jobs created
15. Median household income at a 7 year high
16. The Stock Market is at the highest ever in its history
17. China agreed to American import of beef
18. $89 Billion saved in regulation rollbacks
19. Rollback of a Regulation to boost coal mining
20. MOAB for ISIS
21. Travel ban reinstated
22. Executive order for religious freedom
23. Jump started NASA
24. $600 million cut from UN peacekeeping budget
25. Targeting of MS13 gangs
26. Deporting violent illegal immigrants
27. Signed 41 bills to date
28. Created a commission on child trafficking
29. Created a commission on voter fraud
30. Created a commission for opioids addiction
31. Giving power to states to drug test unemployment recipients
32. Unemployment lowest since May 2007
33. Historic Black College University initiative
34. Women In Entrepreneurship Act
35. Created an office for illegal immigrant crime victims
36. Reversed Dodd-Frank
37. Repealed DOT ruling which would have taken power away from local governments for infrastructure planning
38. Order to stop crime against law enforcement
39. End of DAPA program
40. Stopped companies from moving out of America
41. Promoted businesses to create American Jobs
42. Encouraged country to once again - ‘Buy American and hire American’
43. Cutting regulations: 2 for every new one created
45. Review of all trade agreements to make sure they are America first
46. Apprentice program
47. Highest manufacturing surge in 3 years
48. $78 Billion promised reinvestment from major businesses like Exxon, Bayer, Apple, SoftBank, Toyota
49. Denied FBI a new building
50. $700 million saved with F-35 renegotiation
51. Saves $22 million by reducing white house payroll
52. Dept of Treasury reports a $182 billion surplus for April 2017 (2nd largest in history)
53. Negotiated the release of 6 US humanitarian workers held captive in Egypt
54. Gas prices lowest in more than 12 years
55. Signed An Executive Order To Promote Energy Independence and Economic Growth
56. Has already accomplished more to stop government interference into people’s lives than any President in the history of America
57. President Trump has worked with Congress to pass more legislation in his first 100 days than any President since Truman
58. Has given head executive of each branches 6 month time frame, dated March 15, 2017, to trim the fat, restructure and improve efficiency of their branch. (Observe the push-back the leaks the lies as entrenched POWER refuses to go silently into that good night!)
59. Last, refused his Presidential pay checks. Donated first quarter to Veterans issues; second quarter went to the Betsy Voss for her version of better schools (Charter Schools are certainly on the list)

[plain talk]

Yes!

[Reily]

I am waiting for the anti-missile laser to be become operational (and we shouldn’t have to wait too much longer!).

Having it off shore in the Sea of Japan and zapping one of FatBoy’s test launches would be sweet! It would be render his missile program no more effective then a trebuchet (thought not as much fun!)

We really aren’t that far away from a deployable system, maybe ramp up the program or even develop jointly with the Japanese & South Koreans.

[raiderboy]

Why are we all bark and no bite? We are losing credibility. UN has directly threatened us after we said there would be “FIRE AND FURY”, Was it all just an empty assertion with no substance. NORK needs to be preempted YESTERDAY. American lives in the millions are at stake.

[arthurus]

I suspect this was not a “test” but, rather, a demonstration.

[soycd]

All good. I know it sounds impressive to some, but never forget, code is good, reactions are on cue, we hit what we want to.

That’s all I’ll say.