Posted on 04/11/2013 1:12:32 PM PDT by SatinDoll
U.S. and allied intelligence agencies have identified the launch zone on North Korea’s east coast...
The North Koreans recently began fueling two road-mobile Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missiles located along the east coast between the cities of Wonsan and Hamhung,..
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said in addition to the 2,500-mile-range Musudans the North Koreans could conduct test firings of several 620-mile-range Nodong missiles and shorter-range Scuds simultaneously as a way to thwart U.S. missile defenses.
Unlike earlier launches, the North Koreans are not expected to provide advance warning of the timing for the launches, such as announcing a sea and air closure zone, because of heightened U.S. and Japanese missile defenses.
The Pentagon has at least four missile-interceptor ships in the region equipped with SM-3 interceptors. Additionally, long-range interceptors based in Alaska and California are ready to counter any missiles fired toward the United States.
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“The United States and Japan are preparing to shoot down the missiles if they fly over Japanese territory or are aimed at U.S. bases in the region,” said one official.
The missile tests would be banned under U.N. Security Council resolutions passed after earlier long-range missile tests by North Korea.
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They probably know he's too chicken to do anything. He's useless.
A few years ago a bunch of our grandkids had devices similar to that launcher in the picture.
It is a hysterical toy - every grandkid had a different approach - run and pounce on the launcher, and depending on the angle, watch how high (or not) the ‘missile’ went.
I say hysterical because we laughed constantly at the results.
I think I may still have an unopened one around here somewhere - - - thought we might re-vive the toy some day!
Timely reminder ... Thank You!
>>>Tsar Bomba was originally designed to be 100MT(I think) but then they reduced it to 50-57MT (I think) I think another reason for reduction was the level of fallout created.<<<
An idea was actually to make a delivering aircraft escape without melting.
:) Looks like he is about to hit own butt.
Ha, ha, so that’s what they look like. ;-)
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