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In key test, U.S. warship twice fails twice to intercept ballistic missile in Pacific
Washington Times ^ | 05/30/2021 | Ben Wolfgang

Posted on 05/30/2021 11:11:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

hitting a bullet with another bullet is hard.


41 posted on 05/30/2021 3:00:03 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s unclear exactly what led to Saturday’s failure


Dyke fight?


42 posted on 05/30/2021 3:10:17 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: steve86

What went wrong were 8 years of 0bama who slashed their budget to pennies on the dollar so we are basically just beginning to catch up ... and along comes Traitor Joe slashing their budget once again - they cannot win.


43 posted on 05/30/2021 3:14:11 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why am I not surprised?


44 posted on 05/30/2021 4:10:40 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Salvavida

And they would cease to exist beyond nomadic tribes after our Ohio-class boomers finish them. That is why they don’t.

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With wokeism having contaminated our military not sure how effective or responsive our deterrence is now. Its really reached a dangerous level of weakness that is an invitation to challenge us.

Our political leadership is a joke. Biden and Harris wouldn’t know what to do in the event of a crisis. They are bumbling fools and neither is capable of taking bold and decisive action IMO.

It’s hard to accept but the fact of the matter is that this once great nation and military power is declining and vulnerable right now.


45 posted on 05/30/2021 4:53:55 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: JohnBrowdie

hitting a bullet with another bullet is hard.

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And even harder when there are unnecessary distractions that interfere with our national readiness. The only things we seem to be ready for are feel good initiatives like wokeism, political correctness and gender dysphoria.


46 posted on 05/30/2021 4:59:05 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: alloysteel

Very well stated.


47 posted on 05/30/2021 5:00:10 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: 98charlie

Methinks you’re talking about yesterday’s military. Today its all about wokeism. Its the only thing that matters.


48 posted on 05/30/2021 5:02:11 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

So they failed four times then ...

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They’ll find a way to blame the failures on white supremacy.


49 posted on 05/30/2021 5:03:40 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: SeekAndFind

“All I know is that it is all over the mainstream media, I also heard it on the radio.”

We don’t watch mainstream news - but I can imagine a certain amount of gloating by the MS news orgs over “another failure” by our military (even if as others have said that the military may be engaging in some phys-ops with the release of this “news”).

It reminds me of a movie we watched the other night - ‘The Pledge’ starring Jack Nicholson (with a good number of other “stars”).

Anyway, the trailer looked decent, so we thought we’d give it a try.

Spoiler Alert (kinda): in the end the movie was simply a sideways swipe at the police - basically that cops are incompetent and by the time they retire, unprincipled, crazed alcoholics.

Our rating: zero stars.
Still undecided? The movie was directed by Sean Penn.


50 posted on 05/30/2021 5:25:03 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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Bait and dare to CCP


51 posted on 05/30/2021 5:50:34 PM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: SeekAndFind

There is actually a video game based on that one war-game scenario that showed a mass of small, fast Iranian boats destroying US carriers. The Navy told the guy who designed the scenario to tweak it until it showed a different result.


52 posted on 05/30/2021 6:11:00 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:9)
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