Posted on 07/06/2006 5:06:10 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Taepodong-2 pointed at waters near Hawaii: report
(Kyodo) _ The Taepodong-2 long-range missile recently test-fired by North Korea was pointed at waters near Hawaii, the Sankei Shimbun reported Friday in its online edition.
Citing government sources in Japan and the United States, the report said Japan's Defense Agency and the U.S. military reached the conclusion after analyzing the missile's path from data collected by Aegis-equipped destroyers and RC-135S electronic reconnaissance aircraft.
The missile was test-fired from its launching site in Musudanri in northeast North Korea early Wednesday local time before landing into the Sea of Japan about several hundred kilometers away.
The authorities decided that the missile was pointed at Hawaii from the angle of its nose cone immediately after the launch and the altitude it has reached, the report said.
The distance between North Korea and Hawaii is about 7,000 kikometers. While Taepodong-2 was widely believed to have the firing range of 3,500-6,000 km, its actual range can be longer, the report said.
It is not clear why North Korea targeted areas near Hawaii, but the sources believe North either wanted to show that the missile's firing range includes the United States, or because Hawaii is home to the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, or because the missile could mistakenly hit a land area if fired toward Alaska, the report said.
"the missile was pointed at Hawaii"
hell ! we ought to shoot one back ! Splash it right
down off their coast .
If they ever manage to get one this far , that we don't shoot down first , we ought to shove one right up their shute .
*#@k those people
It was the result of modifications to Karl Rove's evil weather machine.
Duct tape (optional)
And they are getting all this on the cheap. Starving Koreans in the process. This situation is why the term 'First Strike' was developed. Do we let them starve or try to save some ?
It does, but Almost Nowhere.
It does, but Almost Nowhere.
Curious. Sort of like an car losing its transmission just after rolling off the assembly line. I guess just as far-fetched is the idea that the U.S. was testing its ship board lazer antimissile weapon on Taepondong-2. Naw! I must be dreaming. It couldn't happen.
Anybody knowledgeable about the effects of an airburt for the purpose of an ECM attack? Would a detonation over the Pacific involve only Hawaii, or beyond to CONUS?
"The more I think about this I come to one conclusion,NK is very close to economic"
The six-party talks are making it very difficult for NK to blackmail the United States, and it is frustrating them.
This is one area where stratergery has paid off.
You can beat them, or join them.....literally.
;-)
And the nuclear clock creeps a few minutes closer to midnight.
I had forgotten about that. It certainly is a good reason for them to be acting up like this lately. It was another major source of income for that nutbar.
Has it been reported why it failed 40 seconds in air?
"Has it been reported why it failed 40 seconds in air?"
I got this one: the rockets quit firing.
Tokyo Daily: DPRK's Taepo Dong-2 Said Uses PRC Missile Tracking System: Source
Report by Takashi Arimoto: "Missile Tacking System Procured from China?"
Sankei Shimbun (Internet version-WWW)
Thursday,July 6, 2006
Washington -- It was learned that missile tracking systems procured from China might have been used in the long-range ballistic missile Taepo Dong-2 and the other missiles fired in the early hours of 5 July. This was revealed by a military source well-versed in Korean peninsula affairs on 4 July.
According to this source, North Korea procured tracking systems consisting of high-speed monitoring camera and radar from China.
The details of when and how the procurement was made are unclear. This tracking system serves to monitor the flight position of missiles accurately and is indispensable for developing missile technology.
Since North Korea does not have artificial satellites, it uses navigational devices, such as gyroscope, to measure flight angle and angular velocity to monitor missile position accurately.
The US aeronautics magazine points out in its issue that went on sale on 26 June that China "provided a wide range of rocket technology" to North Korea in its development of Taepo Dong missiles.
In this connection, the same source said that Iran, together with China, is also involved with (the DPRK's) missile development. He added: "An investigation into the tracking system used in the missile tests will be a basis for determining whether Iran (as published) made the procurement directly from China."
(Description of Source: Tokyo Sankei Shimbun (Internet version-WWW) -- Internet version of daily published by Fuji Sankei Communications Group)
The United States successfully carried out the eighth intercept test of its sea-based missile defense system on June 22, with a Aegis-equipped Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer taking part for the first time, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said. The "hit-to-kill" test involved a Standard Missile-3 interceptor missile fired by the U.S. Navy's Aegis cruiser USS Shiloh off Hawaii to shoot down a warhead separated from an incoming ballistic missile outside Earth's atmosphere. The SM-3 successfully intercepted a ballistic missile target with a separating re-entry vehicle outside the Earth's atmosphere. The test was sponsored by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency-sponsored test and was listed as Flight Test Maritime-10. It marked the seventh time the Aegis BMD Weapon System has successfully guided an SM-3 to a ballistic missile target intercept and the second time that the system intercepted a ballistic missile with a separating re-entry vehicle.
U.S. Navy ships equipped with earlier versions of Aegis BMD capability have been on operational duty since September 2004.
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060627-094034-5786r
The United States successfully carried out the eighth intercept test of its sea-based missile defense system on June 22, with a Aegis-equipped Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer taking part for the first time, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said. The "hit-to-kill" test involved a Standard Missile-3 interceptor missile fired by the U.S. Navy's Aegis cruiser USS Shiloh off Hawaii to shoot down a warhead separated from an incoming ballistic missile outside Earth's atmosphere. The SM-3 successfully intercepted a ballistic missile target with a separating re-entry vehicle outside the Earth's atmosphere. The test was sponsored by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency-sponsored test and was listed as Flight Test Maritime-10. It marked the seventh time the Aegis BMD Weapon System has successfully guided an SM-3 to a ballistic missile target intercept and the second time that the system intercepted a ballistic missile with a separating re-entry vehicle.
U.S. Navy ships equipped with earlier versions of Aegis BMD capability have been on operational duty since September 2004.
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060627-094034-5786r
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