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.
35 ft. minimum!
Personally, I think China Is enjoying the reaction watch!
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Thank you. Even so, there are variables. It would depend on whether you were within a short distance of the blast, or if you were say ten, twenty or thirty miles distant.
I realize the nukes go off at altitude, but distance is a good thing... say 2,000 miles is more to my liking. Heh heh heh...
Ok I am getting real tired of Korea and Iran thinking they can look the United States in the eyeball and get away with it.
Response is the order of the day. That's what he's looking for. Let's hope NK doesen't mess up!
OK, now this gets personal. He shot a what at us? >-(
Actually, just an airburst near the Southeast Rift Zone of Kilauea might send the Hilina Pali area sliding into the sea. That would cause a VERY LARGE tsunami, which we in Hawaii will probably not survive.
Pearl Harbor would be just a memory. Only the ships at sea and airplanes in the air would have a chance.
Time to hit the bunker... :)
http://www.survivalring.org/FEMA-HomeShelter-H-12-4-0(1987)-OCR.pdf
Detailed plans for below ground shelter...
latitude and longitude of launch site is ?
same for splashdown point.
Take a look at this great circle plot. ...
http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gc?PATH=icn-hik%0D%0A&RANGE=&PATH-COLOR=&PATH-UNITS=mi&SPEED-GROUND=&SPEED-UNITS=kts&RANGE-STYLE=best&RANGE-COLOR=&MAP-STYLE=
I saw an article that said that the forty seconds was wrong. It said it flew for seven minutes.
South Korea was saying that. Don't have the link yet
Northern Sea of Japan, not southern.
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