That may have been a launch (show of force) from a Russian or Chinese submarine.
That’s what I was thinking, too. Or it is US testing (and they’re not admitting it). Strange days.
Firing a missile that close to us could have caused us to launch back.
I’ve thought about that. But then, if it was some other country, why would the US government deny that it was a US missile? Wouldn’t they just pull the ‘nothing to be alarmed about, its our missile, move along’ line? I mean, if a rival nation was launching missiles 35 miles off the US coast, why would the military even leave the issue open to speculation thst it could be such?
“That may have been a launch (show of force) from a Russian or Chinese submarine.”
Not unimaginable.
9/11/10
“Russia, China sign military cooperation protocol”
“Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and the head of China’s Central Military Commission, Guo Boxiong, on Tuesday signed an agreement on developing military cooperation between the two states.
“First of all, it concerns contracts to supply spare parts for air defense systems, aviation and navy equipment,” the minister’s spokeswoman said.
The document was signed during a meeting of the Russian-Chinese intergovernmental commission on military cooperation in Beijing.”
http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20101109/161260856.html
“That may have been a launch (show of force) from a Russian or Chinese submarine.”
35 miles off the coast of LA?? That isn’t a show of force. That’s stupidity and the kind of thing that could cause an over-reaction by our nim-witted CIC.
If (and that’s a BIG IF) either the Russians or Chinese have the gonads to be firing SLBMs that close to our coast, then we have just entered a new geopolitical age.