To: TigerLikesRooster
Very interesting (about the 'senior military figures'). This is just a guess, but 40 seconds is actually pretty good for a first shot out of the box. Don't think the first stage would have been expended by then, though, so they likely aren't past the multi-stage handoff part yet -- a significant milestone.
22 posted on
07/04/2006 10:00:03 PM PDT by
alancarp
(NASCAR: Always turning left, but can never keep up with the Liber-commis.)
To: alancarp
they likely aren't past the multi-stage handoff part yet About the same as the Chinese ten or twelve years ago before Hughes and Loral fixed it for them.
25 posted on
07/04/2006 10:12:07 PM PDT by
1066AD
To: alancarp
"This is just a guess, but 40 seconds is actually pretty good for a first shot out of the box. Don't think the first stage would have been expended by then, though, so they likely aren't past the multi-stage handoff part yet -- a significant milestone." 
Yet another "brilliant" post from AlanCarp.
NEWSFLASH: NK's 1998 missile test was 3 stages. The multi-stage milestone was passed in the previous millenium.
Wait. Let me guess. You're one of those who bad-mouthed our missile defense system. You've got something at stake here; you can't allow anyone to think that we shot down NK's latest long-range missile??
Just a hunch. Flame away, Mr. Rocket Scientist.
66 posted on
07/04/2006 11:00:23 PM PDT by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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