"... it's a soviet SA-5, it's meant to look like that."
Posted on 04/16/2017 4:56:35 AM PDT by Mean Daddy
No content, video at link with what appears to be a paper mache missile.
(Excerpt) Read more at liveleak.com ...
I hate it when my fake missile shows up instead of the real one.
That’s what I call a North Korean nose job!
Similar to the fake tanks of GEN Patton’s non existent army across the channel before the Normandy invasion. Problem is today’s satellite imagery is a bit more sophisticated to expose those kinds of deception operations. Nice try though. It is the idea that counts right? :-)
"... it's a soviet SA-5, it's meant to look like that."
I asked that the other day and didn’t get a reply.
Can fake missiles now be detected from satellites somehow?
The SA-5/S-200 is a Soviet surface to air missile from the early 1960’s. The four rockets on the sides are solid fueled boosters that burn for 3-5 seconds and then separate. The canted nose on the boosters may be there to cause them to fall away from the main rocket after separation.
The S-200 does not appear to be very effective, especially against an adversary capable of electronic defense measures. Libya used them against U.S. planes in 1983 without success, it’s unlikely that the Norks would do any better.
Another comment at that website states:
“Its a Soviet era S-200 missile. The rockets with the tilted nose cone are booster rockets. They’re designed to break away from the missile seconds after launch and the tilted cone facilitates aerodynamic separation.”
What in the hell is a missile parade?
Here they are, blow ‘em up.
Totally bizarre.
Kim Jong Prefix and his new haircut can’t hide the fact that is he is a fat turd about to be wiped from the face of the earth.
ROFL!
Imagine if we did that?
The whole world be cursing us.
Yet I think the Ruskies and Chinese still do it.
I don’t really get the point.
Except that you have to show you’re stronger than you really are.
Since so much else of North Korea is a sham, I wouldn't have any trouble believing these missiles are too.
Sooner or later someone is going to know the truth about the size of your rocket.
Actually, I could see how understating the size of ones rocket could make more sense...strategically that is.
Looks like a Soviet attempt at copying the old Nike missile.
No joke, while he’s parading them seems the perfect time to hit them
Agree. This really isn’t a basis from which to yell “fake.” Intel analysis looks at many factors from people who really know missiles.
It's a kind of line dance that Marco Rubio and Linda Graham do at the clubs.
Saw a documentary on the “camouflage army” a few days ago. It was 40 years before these men were allowed to talk about what they did in the great war.
Some went on to use their skills to build great careers. One was Bill Blass.
When we actually got into Saddam’s stash didn’t it turn out most of it was fake? I know all the tacky gold furniture was fake, and I seem to recall fake technology. When it came down to it, all they could do was lob SCUD missiles. His bluster was his downfall.
Everything the world is allowed to see in North Korea are just views of the world’s largest Potemkim Village
Maybe those ICBMs on the trailers are full of Kim Che.
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