Posted on 11/09/2010 1:02:04 PM PST by Scythian
They want money and to leave Iran alone?
I hope so. He is still the President for Pete’s sake.
Why? What can Barry do? Bow toward Mecca?
I have spent many hours in a news helicopter and it would be much more remarkable if they had NOT seen and taped the event. The pilot is constantly scanning the area for traffic and something this big and obvious would not escape detection by the pilot or the camera person. As for taping it, the camera mounted on the helicopter is always ready to go. Focus would not be much of a problem, that’s at infinity.
Notice the other traffic between them and the contrail? Wonder what they saw, they appear to have been several miles closer to the event.
I have lived in Florida most of my life and have watched numerous launches from Kennedy Space Center. This contrail is very distinct and the missile producing it must be pretty darn big. It’s size and speed looks very similar to a shuttle launch when we see it from 100 miles away. I would take that to mean it was probably about 1/3 the size of the shuttle and its assorted pieces at launch.
Depends on what they're testing, I suppose.
For example, if they've got a set of land-based sensors and other capabilities that they want to test in the context of certain attack scenarios, then they pretty much have to do the test in view of the general public.
Ok, think about it. If our country was being attacked by missiles, why would the secret service bring the president back to the country?
I seriously doubt there’s a connection.
We fired the damn thing ourselves. Now he will haul ass home and not have to answer the hard questions being put
to him.
Big Deal!
We will know they're serious when they finally put the Amish on double secret probation!
Good assessement for a working country, but at that point, the overwhelming majority of the population effectively would have been thrown back to the bronze age.
No electricity. No food deliveries. No fuel deliveries. No internet. No telephones. No cell phones.
If we are voting... I vote D.C.
It was a message from a Shan class sub that we are quiet,we are here and we can launch when we want and you won’t even know about it until it’s over...We have arrived, deal with it...
NORTH KOREAN MISSILE WARHEAD FOUND IN ALASKA
Korean Times ^ | March 4, 2003 | Staff Report
Posted on 03/04/2003 8:13:05 AM PST by ewing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/856644/posts
Zero will come home then proclaim he saved the taxpayers several hundred million dollars in doing so.
maybe culling the herd would be a good thing. I'm sure that my little one year stash of provisions and ammo just might get me through the first big die off. In just the first month I'm sure that there would be hard times from a nuke.
I’m not sure that is all so uncommon. From a helicopter it would be easy to see that as it happened. When I was stationed on the Mohave desert in 1972 I was taking some pictures of some buddies and caught several shots of the dual trails of a Minuteman II dual launch from Vandenberg AFB many miles away. We dumb Marines didn’t know that they were ICBMs and we wondered for quite a while about what we had seen. Five years later as an Air Force 2Lt I witnessed a launch from a point on a hill above the launch site and it was even more impressive. From a helicopter you can see everything looking out over the ocean and the missile/rocket is in sight for quite a bit of time.
My theory is still that Barry wants some type of disaster so he can go back to the Taj, be treated like a king and say he is ruling the US from there because he is considered to be in exile.
My theory is, Obama’s early return was due to the volcano in Indonesia, which forced him to cancel that portion of the trip.
Just saw Lt. General Thomas McInerney, (USAF Ret) on Hannity, express very, VERY forcefully that the object seen off the coast was NOT a contrail from any aircraft that he has ever seen and that the trail looks to him like a sea launched missile. This three star with over 4100 hours of stick time, 35 years flying fighters and said that he has NEVER seen a contrail at sea level or 5K feet like that of the video. The change in attitude seen midway up the trail is the missile guidance is performing a course correction and then smoothly moving away from the coast.
Now, this guy is no “noob” to aircraft or missiles and he could not have been more emphatic that it was not a jet.
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