Ruh Roh!
I would like to think we have several cruise missles locked on to the launch site prepared to take the thing out BEFORE it lauches. A ounce of prevention and all that...
Another good post!
Keep 'em coming!
That plus an Aegis or three? Hehehehe!
Well, if NK believes it has a "right" to test it's missle, I suppose we have a right to test our missle defense.
Good post!
Maybe so, but the system was declared operational several months ago.
Any word on David Gregory???? Has he been eliminated from the Pool?
Well that cinches it for me. Welcome to 21st Century warfare everyone. This is going to be exciting.
Even better will be when a batch of Trident D5s can be targeted on N. Korea....... OK, I know that ain't gonna happen, but it sure would be good to remove that tyrannical totalitarian troll once and for all........ OK, I'll settle for seeing this Kim-dork missile blown up on its launch pad.
btw, don't miss this remarkable photo-journal on the insanity of North Korea. In particular, look at the photos of the 100-story hotel in Pyongyang that could not be finished because the construction was so horribly shoddy that the elevator shafts were not aligned properly, major structural flaws throughout, etc. It's been "unfinished" since 1991, because they don't want to admit the truth of the disaster and tear it all down, but they can't "finish" it since it's a hopeless catastrophe.......
Amazing photo journal by a Russian computer guy who was in North Korea:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82755
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82755&page=2
Ruh Roh!
"I'd piss on a sparkplug if I thought it would do any good..."
Kim Il Jong will become scared now and decide not to launch. He's probably very afraid of being humbled.
I've got a dumb question.
If this is just a test launch -- why shoot it down?
If we are going to shoot it down -- is it really aimed at us?
-ccm
A moment of thanks for the great Ronaldo Maximus and his refusal to submit that all we could do in the face of a rogue launch was "ride it out." President Reagan, I miss you so much.
Why refer to it as a weapon at all? It targets and kills weapons, and can (and may someday) save millions of lives. It will never target a single human soul. Referring to it as a weaopn simply plays into the hands of those who oppose such deensive capabilities.
(Why do Leftists love death so much?)
Greely... What about the USS OHIO, is she "locked" in?
When the system is not in operational status, “they don’t have soldiers staffing it at all times, especially at the interceptor sites in Alaska and California,” Isaacs said.
This sounds like a crock.
I can't believe any weapon system associated with CONUS radar and missile defense wouldn't have a operations crew on duty 24/7 at a launch control facility. As far as people at the launch facilities (LFs), Minuteman LFs were, by design, unmanned except for maintenance. Vandenberg uses some of the Minuteman setup on North Vandenberg for this mission.
The best possible outcome to a NK ICBM test is for the US to shoot it down in the boost phase. There's nothing that the pot-bellied, dog-eating, tin-horn little Dictator can do about it either.