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Russia's Missile Forces successfully launch SS-18 Satan ICBM
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| Dec 22, 2006
Posted on 12/22/2006 2:49:25 AM PST by kronos77
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Russian name is: RS-20V Voyevoda (Duke)
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posted on
12/22/2006 2:49:29 AM PST
by
kronos77
To: kronos77
successfully hit hypothetical targets on the Kamchatka Peninsula
Yup. That's what we were aiming at. Right there where that baby landed. That was our intended
hypothetical target.
I'll remember that next time I go shooting. Why use paper targets when I can get a tighter pattern with hypothetical targets?
(Actually, I don't really need the hypotheticals.)
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posted on
12/22/2006 3:12:11 AM PST
by
samtheman
(The Democrats are the DhimmiGods of the New Religion of PC)
To: samtheman
I newer actally got why nukes do have to hit actual target? SS-18 have MIRV, 10 independantly targeting warheads... all you have to do is to point that to desierewd (undesiered) country, or continent and fire...
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posted on
12/22/2006 3:22:55 AM PST
by
kronos77
(-www.savekosovo.org- and -www.kosovo.net- Save Kosovo from Islam!)
To: kronos77
Yuck
I watched The Day After again on Scifi last night. Still scary.
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posted on
12/22/2006 3:35:45 AM PST
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
To: kronos77
The warheads on ICBMs are smaller so proximity to the target matters. It's not like buckshot.
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posted on
12/22/2006 3:38:27 AM PST
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
To: Thrownatbirth
Would you like to live on the continent that has ben hit with those 10 warheads even no specified targets were hit?
I wouldnt
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posted on
12/22/2006 3:46:16 AM PST
by
kronos77
(-www.savekosovo.org- and -www.kosovo.net- Save Kosovo from Islam!)
To: kronos77
If you miss a hardened ICBM silo by a couple of hundred meters it'll most likely be able to fire its missiles back at you.
But that's why the Russians always built great big missiles. It's because their guidance systems suck.
L
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posted on
12/22/2006 3:49:58 AM PST
by
Lurker
(History's most dangerous force is government and the crime syndicates that grow with it.)
To: finnman69
My parents saw that movie when I was a 8 y/o kid, it was in 1985, just before Chernobyl. They were terrified.
Now, living in Serbia (than Yugoslavia) we were not part of any blcok, but were allways scared by authorites that US or USSR may push the button.
For the first time I watched Day After three years ago. And I was scared.
just to explain about what radiation does... Chernobyl is 3,000 km away from Serbia. On may 1st we were on pickink as most of people in Yugoslavia and eastern europe.
I was a kid, and I remember reading an article about "Mir" space station. We were all on the ground, and grass was so nice, soft and green. It started to rain, but not much... so we didnt wanted to go away, and stayed on pickinck.
Several days later they told us that Chernobyl exploded... ten days ago... and to stay away from rain next few weeks.
My father worked in agriculural corporatind, and he said that when workers came back from plantations, their boots (wet from grass) made Geyger-Muller counter squeek..)
And we were 3,000 km away..
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posted on
12/22/2006 3:55:20 AM PST
by
kronos77
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To: kronos77
Would you like to live on the continent that has ben hit with those 10 warheads even no specified targets were hit?
Yes!
Having grown up around Soviet first-strike targets since the 60s, I think my chances would be better.
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posted on
12/22/2006 3:59:03 AM PST
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
To: kronos77
Soon to be sold to Venuzuela and North Korea?
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posted on
12/22/2006 4:05:26 AM PST
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: Westlander
No:9
N.Korea will sonn have their own, and venezuala is too small an insignificant.
Anyway, SS-18 is ICBM, and they are reserved only for countries that made them, they are never sold abroad.
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posted on
12/22/2006 4:15:34 AM PST
by
kronos77
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To: kronos77
If your targets are military, the closer the hit, the more effective the strike. And if your purpose is deterrence, the more credibly you can threaten to wipe out an actual city (instead of some nearby countryside or ocean surface, in the case of coastal cities), then the more accurate your missiles are perceived to be, the more effective their deterrent threat.
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:04:41 AM PST
by
samtheman
(The Democrats are the DhimmiGods of the New Religion of PC)
To: kronos77
I newer actally got why nukes do have to hit actual target? SS-18 have MIRV, 10 independantly targeting warheads... all you have to do is to point that to desierewd (undesiered) country, or continent and fire...
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If you're aiming at a city, targeting the missile at, say, a point halfway between the Capitol Building and the White House, or The Saviour Tower on the Kremlin walls, if you miss by a half a mile with a 1 megaton bomb it probably isn't going to make much of a difference in what happens to the city, all things considered.
If you're aiming a a nuclear missile silo, which has been constructed to withstand a nuclear strike, putting the warhead right on the blast doors gives you the best chance of knocking out the missile.
So it depends on whether you are trying to kill missiles or people.
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:15:19 AM PST
by
Cheburashka
( World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
To: kronos77
They name their missile "Satan?" Egads. Nothing like a little truth in advertising.
To: Lurker
But that's why the Russians always built great big missiles. It's because their guidance systems suck.==
As far as I red the gudance system on SS-18 good enough to hit the football field from maximum distance. Her wieght is big because she carries lot of the false warhead about 40 (10 is acual) altogether to swart possible anti-missile resistance.
The newest russian missile Topol-M small enough to be carried on the ground truck and so be hided in the widness of russian territory as the submarine in ocean. Still has 11000 km range.
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:24:54 AM PST
by
RusIvan
("THINK!" the motto of IBM)
To: Brilliant
WE named it Satan. They amed it in Russian
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:25:20 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Brilliant
They name their missile "Satan?" Egads. Nothing like a little truth in advertising.==
"Satn" was named by american. In Soviet Union SS-18 was called "Voevoda" mean the warlord.
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:27:52 AM PST
by
RusIvan
("THINK!" the motto of IBM)
To: kronos77
I grew up near the most targeted place on Earth, SAC command in Omaha. As a kid I loved seeing all the bombers fly by.
On 911, when my father looked out the window and saw the Air Force One landing in Omaha, he called me right away. He thought the next thing he would see in the air was missile contrails.
We always knew if the bombing started, there was no place to hide.
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:50:20 AM PST
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: Brilliant
Satan is the NATO designation.
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:51:47 AM PST
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: redgolum
Does everyone need to know Air Force One landed in Omaha?
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posted on
12/22/2006 6:28:16 AM PST
by
huldah1776
(Worthy is the Lamb.)
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