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Tenth Interceptor Emplaced for the Ballistic Missile Defense System
Defense Talk ^
Posted on 12/21/2005 5:29:15 PM PST by MARKUSPRIME
Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry “Trey” Obering III, U.S. Missile Defense Agency director, said today that the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the Missile Defense Agency emplaced the eighth interceptor missile designed to intercept and destroy a long-range ballistic missile into its underground silo at Ft. Greely, Alaska on December 17.
Two interceptors are emplaced at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: ftgreely; gmd; mmissiledefense; nationalsecurity; usaf; vandenbergafb
Good news. Combine that with Japan getting BMD and our aegis destroyers and we should be ok vs people like North Korea and Iran. Since they will have a small number of missles.
To: MARKUSPRIME
It would be good news indeed if indeed they work. There have been too few flight tests of the system. I would be happier to see more sucessfull intercepts.
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posted on
12/21/2005 6:15:54 PM PST
by
Dawggie
To: MARKUSPRIME
we should be ok vs people like North Korea and IranYes, we would be less likely to melt on US soil, but a small device mounted on a SCUD could reach Israel, Europe and everywhere in the ME.
Care to imagine what our response would be and what would happen to 40% of the world's oil reserves?
To: MARKUSPRIME
Sounds good to me as long was we are expecting ICBM's and tot boat towed warheads or ground hugging cruise missiles.
To: 1stMarylandRegiment
Care to imagine what our response would be and what would happen to 40% of the world's oil reserves?
I'm pretty sure we have the technology to drill through a few feet of glass to get at it if we really need to....
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posted on
12/21/2005 7:49:08 PM PST
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: MARKUSPRIME
I'm all for it so long as we do not acquire a Maginot Line mentality.
To: AZRepublican
Yeah, first wave will be offshore launched cruise missiles from Russian subs. Russia is dropping the pretense of democracy.
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posted on
12/21/2005 10:51:55 PM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: MARKUSPRIME
Eighteen ships in the Pacific are now being outfitted with ballistic missile inteceptors.
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:29:57 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: flying Elvis
Ze Maginot line, it ees impenetrable!
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:50:55 PM PST
by
Malichi
(!)
To: Malichi
The Maginot Line wasn’t penetrated, it was bypassed.
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:54:01 PM PST
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: R. Scott
Naw, now your going to tell me the Germans snuck through the Ardennes.
TAW
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:57:12 PM PST
by
Malichi
(!)
To: Malichi
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man. If anything made by God can be overcome, anything made by man can be overcome."
George C. Scott as George Patton in PATTON
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:13:39 PM PST
by
Malichi
(!)
To: Malichi
No way – every one KNOWS that tanks can’t go through a forest!
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:30:17 PM PST
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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