Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/15/2009 10:21:34 AM PST by BradtotheBone
A top Pentagon official said Monday that a US missile defense drill will simulate an Iranian attack, a departure from the usual scenario of a North Korean attack, according to Reuters.
Previously, we have been testing the GMD system against a North Korean-type scenario. This next test ... is more of a head-on shot like you would use defending against an Iranian shot into the United States. So that's the first time that we're now testing in a different scenario," Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, head of the US Missile Defense Agency said at the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit in Washington.
According to O'Reilly, an Iranian attack would be more challenging than a North Korean attack because a missile fired from Iran would reach the US "more head on than from the side," and therefore relatively faster.
During the test, expected to cost about $150 million scheduled for January, the US would fire an interceptor missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at a mock-Iranian missile which would be fired from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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There's a sign error here. The US should be drilling an Iranian attack scenario which involves a head shot to Teheran.
If no one has noticed. Israel has become quite silent the last month.
Now this.
Guess someone has heard a rumor.
HOWEVER THAT IS JUST MY OPINION.
don’t want amadjihad to take a comment on internet as military ops.
He is just that insane.
The best time to neutralize an Iranian attack is before they separate uranium isotopes.
Walter Durenberger , von Braun’s boss, said the worst impact of a British raid on Peenemunde in 1943 was the loss of skilled scientists and engineers. If we are serious about stopping Iran we need to be a whole lot less squeamish about killing people. No more attacks on empty buildings at 3:00 AM. We don’t need to attack the underground harden centrifugues, attack the soft, heavily occupied office buildings at 10:30 AM on a Tuesday to get the most bang for the buck.
Israelis did something like that in the early 60’s when
the Egyptians were employing some German expats on rocketry
projects. If I recall correctly they didn’t have a strategic bomber force so they just sent the bombs in the mail.
when we kept saying “Drill, Baby, Drill” this was not what we had in mind...
For the Israelis, killing German scientists working for Egypt was a win-win situation. Sweet.
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