Posted on 11/14/2010 12:18:43 PM PST by roses of sharon
But an interesting history of news reports of past Chinese hacking.
bkmk
I’m not sure I’m ready to buy the Chinese hacker story but there are sure a bunch of coincidences here.
The Minuteman missile outage is really puzzling to me, as I used to live near FE Warren AFB where this happened. I’ve toured the launch control facility and they told us there were multiple REDUNDANT lines of communication, in other words, cutting a single cable could not cause such an outage. The AF hasn’t given a detailed explanation but saying that they could not access 5 flights of 10 missiles each just doesn’t square with what I understood about how redundant these installations are.
How many years ago would we have been at DEFCON 4 with SAC bombers in the air over less than this? Today we worry about gays rights...
If you want to parse it in “Clintonese” you might want to note that technically speaking, anything that moves through the air is an aircraft, so if the DoD and Obama-types want to claim a missile counts as an aircraft, they would be right.
I don’t know enough about airplanes or missiles to judge, but I trust an Air Force Lt.Gen. to know what he is talking about.
ping
Have it on good background that the US Navy has stepped-up patrols off the Cali coast. That might discount the hacker theory.
I think of the scene from the Bedford Incident when weapons officer James MacArthur, overstressed from 24 hours at GQ hears Captain Richard Widmark say the phrase fire one in while speaking to former U Boat skipper Eric Portman, and understands the phrase as orders to "Fire One" and launches an ASROC at a nuclear armed Soviet sub.
I can’t believe this was a sub launched missile from a foreign navy. If it was, stock up on canned food and ammo and head for the hills.
If it wasn’t a Chinese missile, or a Russian missile, or a Korean missile, it has to have temped all of them to see what they can get away with. My guess is that we are far more vulnerable to all sorts of attacks than Washington wants us to know. All that tax money, all the wars, all the aggravation at airports, and an enemy can hit us anytime they want, a nuke from a sub, in a packing container at one of our ports, or smuggled across the Mexican border in a bale of marijuana. Meanwhile, Obamao is out there apologizing to all of our enemies. All the damage they can do to us, and none of it is equal to what the enemy within is doing.
If this was a missile, where did it go?
Where did the boosters, which should separate and drop away go?
In the video, is the missile going up or down?
How comes there’s no burning exhaust plume?
What’s hard to believe is that we can land men on the moon and develop the technology to land spacecraft on Mars but we can’t find out what the he!! this thing was in our sky? Either the Government doesn’t want panic or they made a big mistake.
Could discredit the 'airplane contrail' theory...
If it was an aircraft, why isn’t this contrail or plume replicated everyday around the same time this past week? The helicopter news reporter saw an anamoly, and that is what he took footage of. If it is to show off some new capability of the military, do you think our government would be speaking publicly about it (pictures are worth a thousand words). Or maybe the timing was to allow some foreign governments to witness this.
bookmark
If a US SLBM was launched, where did the nuc tip missile go????? Same with a nuc tip sub cruise missile. It takes off and lands somewhere with a mushroom cloud. Every earthquake monitor along the west coast would be kicking live. So far no indications of explosion. Furthermore major universities have ocean sonar networks for ocean and marine studies. Any water missile launch will also be recorded and detected. If it was a missile, a possible jihadist demo of a manportable SAM shot from a merchant ship???? I think that is more plausible then huge missiles fired from Chicom or US subs.
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