Posted on 09/08/2017 8:21:08 PM PDT by topher
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said recently it would be "game on" if North Korea were to fire a missile at the United States or its allies, but how fast things would happen is not so clear.
A leading expert in missile defense told Fox News there would not be much time to decide to shoot down a North Korean missile.
This is a game of minutes, but the initial detection of a launch would be really in terms of seconds, said Thomas Karako, senior fellow and director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Keep in mind the entire flight time from North Korea to the United States is well under any hour [and] the authority is given in advance. It's predesignated, he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Graphic is article show times that the missile would take to reach Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.
I believe the article says the US would react in seconds (and would have to)...
Need to grt ‘em in the boost phase. Space -based high power laser?
“What Would Happen If North Korea Fires A Missile At The US?”
For better or worse, there is only one answer to this question.
I’m in Hong Kong this week.
I’ve had about 15 people ask if I’m scared.
Obama(The-Mess) cancelled that in 2010.
I imagine if we would have had a decent president and not cancelled the program, that might be an option.
“My prediction....PAIN.”
Clubber Lang
Rocky III
We can blow Kim off his toilet.
If he’s dumb enough to escalate things, well he won’t like the answer.
.... So .... Other than our missile defense system ..... I guess there is no way for a squadron of Suicide Jockeys to actually scramble and take the rickety missile out for the good of the country? .... Just wondering. After all .... it is only a half hour to scramble a mission.
China should be worried if the mountain where North Korea has had 6 bomb tests implodes (collapses). That would release radiation and would affect Russia (first) and then China.
The Winter Olympics are only a few months away just miles from the DMZ. South Korea is hosting these Olympics...
Because you live on Guam?
(interesting past and present on your FR page.)
We’re assuming that the missile would fly on track. Not many successful missile tests by NK. God only knows where the missile would end up.
“FoxNews: What would happen if North Korea fires a missile at the US”
Easy answer: Roughly 157,000 Americans will have to find their way home from work WITHOUT an operating GPS.
Within a few minutes various sensor system will know its trajectory. Probably one of several naval ships will fire on the missile and shoot it down.
The democrats and liberals will immediately come out and apologize for hurting the missile, and hope Trump allows Little Kimmy to try again.
If FAT BOY is really stupid, you are quite right.
As an armchair quarterback, I would nuke all along the Northn part of the DMZ with 455 megaton bombs to hopefully take out a bunch of FAT BOY's 20,000 artillery pieces.
And keep nuking up the peninsula if FAT BOY has more artillery fire at Seoul.
There are 20 million people in Seoul that could be seriously harmed by those 20,000 artillery pieces.
Hence the actions by Kim. The Olympics will be spitting distance from North Korea, and Kim will have 24/7 worldwide coverage on anything he says or does.
Going to be ugly if that SOB isn't taken out by the end of this year.
“Were assuming that the missile would fly on track. Not many successful missile tests by NK. God only knows where the missile would end up.”
No. It doesn’t matter whether it flies on track or not, or even if it is or is not carrying a nuclear weapon. We will assume it WILL fly on track and that it WILL be tipped with a nuclear weapon. We are not going to wait around and see if it parachutes harmlessly down with a gift basket of peace attached.
He fires anything at us or Japan, and the response will be nuclear destruction of North Korea.
We can dial our NUKES to be very clean, as I understand it.
And as soon as those NUKES impact, the artillery would not be able to fire through bomb blasts, provided a wall of NUKES are set off.
Otherwise there are estimates of 1 million South Koreans dead from an artillery attack.
There will be nothing nuclear about any possible response from the US. We had terrorists attacks on US soil on 9/11, and our response was way more muted than many predicted.
He fires anything at us or Japan
*******
He already fired over Japan;we did nothing.
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