N.Korea, this aint looking good

[Hornet33]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_re_us/us_missile_test

"Lt. Raymond Geoffroy (JEFF-rey) said the ICBM was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 3:01 a.m. Monday.

He said it carried three unarmed re-entry vehicles that hit their targets near the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, some 4,200 miles away."





Good response from our guys. Not so subtle way of saying, "Hey NK, you guys can't even get one successfull rocket launch right, but we just put 3 RV's on target 4200 miles away with one of our older missile systems. Good luck with that 'wipe the United States from the planet' thing."

[Motherland]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_re_us/us_missile_test

"Lt. Raymond Geoffroy (JEFF-rey) said the ICBM was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 3:01 a.m. Monday.

He said it carried three unarmed re-entry vehicles that hit their targets near the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, some 4,200 miles away."





Good response from our guys. Not so subtle way of saying, "Hey NK, you guys can't even get one successfull rocket launch right, but we just put 3 RV's on target 4200 miles away with one of our older missile systems. Good luck with that 'wipe the United States from the planet' thing."

[Strip]

He he two words "Star Wars" the greatest deterrent that never was.  Thank you Ronald Reagan you are missed.

I saw this movie once....

Shows a red white and blue barrel with a good size nuclear weapon sitting next to it.

Next scene shows the same barrel with the White House in the back ground.

Catch my drift? StarWars was, and still is, a waste of money....its simply can be subverted. If we cant stop gangsters piling tons of drugs into the country you think a 30-40lb nuke will be hard? The missile defense shield can stop a couple of missiles with a high degree of reliability if its in position to do so.

Anyone ever see the kill vehicle on the new ABM missile? Its about the size of a bread box!

[Sikboy]

Catch my drift? StarWars was, and still is, a waste of money....

Um. That's why he referred to it as the greatest weapons system that never was. There is the belief out there that Star Wars was pushed to the forefront even though the technology wasn't there in order to encourage the Soviets to over-spend trying to keep up with the U.S. system that didn't really exist. At least not an any kind of pre-deployment development stage.

-Sik

[allaire]

The Star Wars program was a bigger piece of vapor ware than Duke Nukem Forever.  It never worked to the point of being practical.  Was it a waste of money, yes, but it advanced some of the tech of the day.  What I was talking about was that and MAD went a long way in preventing a nuclear war.  I mean look at the facts the US had more long range nuclear weapons.  The downside was that most if not all were stationary.  The Soviets had a whole lot more short to medium range portable delivery systems along with a tremendous amount of "Boomers" along with their long range ICBMs.  So it's extremely difficult to find the mobile launch platforms located out in the boonies until they start the procedure to launch and at that point it would be difficult to take the launcher out.  Now by saying that we can destroy any missiles before they get to us and not having to prove it, is simply amazing that our bluff wasn't called.  Of course to do that would have taken a full scale invasion/full first strike which would prompt a retaliatory strike and poof instant radioactive stone age again.  Besides this is all academic the star wars program was canceled when it got out that it didn't exist/never worked.  The government did keep up work on missile defence systems as it should have.  It's not the nukes you have to worry about its the chemical/biological you have to be worried about.  Just because it's so much easier to deliver either one of those.