Report: North Korea sells Egypt 24 medium-range missiles

World Tribune ^ | 11/27/01

[holman]

Pakistan already has these missiles in their inventory

[samtheman]

These weapons are getting cheaper, better, easier for nitwits like the North Koreans to make and easier to distribute around the world. No missle-defence technology will ever be 100% or will ever make us 100% safe. But to avoid building a missle-defence system in this world today --- on the grounds that it might not work 100% in every conceivable scenario --- is insanity. There are enough missles out there, and enough whacko-scumbags with their greasy stinking nose-picking fingers on the trigger, to warrant us doing as much as we can to develop and deploy a technology for taking missles out of the sky.

[samtheman]

As long as they won't sell them missiles WITH Dongs, we'll be OK.

"I'll take 24 missles to go... hold the dongs."

[Nachum]

If the missiles have such a long range, shouldn't they be called "long dongs"?

[Don Myers]

Can these missiles be armed with nuclear warheads?

[RightWhale]

Can these missiles be armed with nuclear warheads?

Makes one wonder why accuracy was not a concern.

[shellylet]

Once again we have the Clintons to thank for allowing US companys to sell information to North Korea to be used against the US and other nations friendly to Israel. I hope the morons who voted for these idiots feel real safe these days. I know I do knowing North Korea has some of their "no-dong, long dong" missiles aimed at the west coast. Those people ought to be hung. After a fair trial, of course!

[kevin]

Come on be happy, that's 24 less missiles North Korea has now!

[Don Myers]

These things have a range of 1,000 kilometers. That is a long way. They would reach Israel if fired from Egypt. And they are good enough to target US Forces in the MidEast.

[shellylet]

They supposedly have also developed or are in the process of developing a Taepo Dong-2 with the possibility of carrying chemical or biological weapons, which could reach the US. Again, we can thank old Billy Boy.

[folly]

Didn't Reagan and Bush Sr. allow US companies to sell anthrax to Iraq? Money talks, b.s. walks, regardless of party affiliation.

[Don Myers]

"a Taepo Dong-2 with the possibility of carrying chemical or biological weapons, which could reach the US. Again"

I would think that a good-ol' fashioned nuclear warhead would give them more bang for their bucks.

[RightWhale]

Accuracy is measured in CEP. That is the probability it will land within a target area of so many miles radius. If a SCUD lands within 2 miles after flying 200 miles, that is considered a bullseye. Our ABMs have to hit their target within 18 inches. If the target is a suburb or a 1/2 million man army, a miss of 2 miles does little of military significance, even if the warhead is a nuke. It would take several trainloads of such missiles to stop an army, and then the strategic weapons will come into play. They mention CBN, but only the nuke component is of immediate military significance.

[Don Myers]

"If the target is a suburb or a 1/2 million man army, a miss of 2 miles does little of military significance, even if the warhead is a nuke. It would take several trainloads of such missiles to stop an army,"

I would think that nuclear tipped missiles would be more effective than you indicate here.

[RightWhale]

Nukes of the size carried on a SCUD aren't the big jobs. They make a nice boom, but they aren't in the league with what ICBMs carry, even MIRVed ICBMs. It's bigger than the suitcase nukes, which are not much more than a couple of truckbombs worth of boom, but SCUDS are intended to be used in barrage, a lot at one time. A few SCUDS scattered over an area will just make the enemy angry, not stop him. Bad enough the Abrams roll into Baghdad, but with angry tank crews watch out. Plus nobody wants to see Israeli tanks in Baghdad, but if Saddam miscalculates again, that's more than likely.

[shellylet]

Name your sources please!

[shellylet]

Either way I don't like them aimed at me!!!