Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Flit on February 21, 2008, 12:12:00 PM
-
As stated-
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=71c_1203596547&p=1
A good shot, I'd say :aok
-
I'm surprised they got it.
-
Well, they did know where it was going to be and they waited for calm seas to launch.
Doesn't prove much IMO about reading any proof about some sort of Star Wars project though.
Congrats to them. Could have been extremely embarrassing if they had missed though.
-
Boeing builds and integrates major subcomponents of the SM-3, including the kinetic warhead guidance unit and ejection subsystem.
WTG Boeing! :aok :cool:
-
Originally posted by Ripsnort
WTG Boeing! :aok :cool:
Didn't Chinese do the same thing a year ago so you guys were screaming with faithful indignation?
-
Originally posted by Boroda
Didn't Chinese do the same thing a year ago so you guys were screaming with faithful indignation?
If they did, Bill Clinton gave them that ability! :mad:
-
Originally posted by Boroda
Didn't Chinese do the same thing a year ago so you guys were screaming with faithful indignation?
IIRC the Chinesse decided not to tell anyone what they were doing first, so out of no where system start detecting a missle launch in china. It could have caused some major problems.
The U.S. planned this months ago, so I am sure the rest of the world has known it was going to happen for a while.
-
Originally posted by Ripsnort
If they did, Bill Clinton gave them that ability! :mad:
I thought it was Boris Yeltsin :(
You are lucky, you can meet Clingon and throw a tomato at his face, while Yeltsin already rots in hell :mad:
-
Originally posted by Boroda
Didn't Chinese do the same thing a year ago so you guys were screaming with faithful indignation?
This is different, they were doing it to test their weapons system for shooting down satellites, we did it to protect people from the fuel contained in the satellite, and to make sure none of the satellite could be recovered by a foreign power. I'm sure we already knew we had the tech to hit a satellite, they needed to test their missile to see if it could.
-
Originally posted by trax1
This is different, they were doing it to test their weapons system for shooting down satellites, we did it to protect people from the fuel contained in the satellite, and to make sure none of the satellite could be recovered by a foreign power. I'm sure we already knew we had the tech to hit a satellite, they needed to test their missile to see if it could.
LOL.
"I am different, I must be allowed to do it!".
Look, if China, that didn;t start any wars since 1900, tests it's weapons - it's baad, if US, that started two full scale wars in last 9 years and killed over a million foreign civilians does the same thing - it's OK.
Back in early-2000s Russian military training (full-scale first time since USSR) included several space launches (in a matter of hours, from scratch) to substitute satellites shot down by "potential enemy". So you guys still compete with Iran.
-
Originally posted by Boroda
Didn't Chinese do the same thing a year ago so you guys were screaming with faithful indignation?
No. They did something completely different. We nailed a satellite drifting in low earth orbit that was about to re-enter on it's own. The Chinese nailed a functioning satellite in high orbit that could have been safely de-orbited. Ours resulted in a debris field of smallish parts that will relatively safely re-enter within a week or so. Theirs resulted in thousands of pieces of debris that will be a hazard to anything in orbit for many years, including the ISS and any other manned space vehicle launched for the next decade or so.
Huge difference, and of course I will point out that since you even asked that question, you're either being deliberately obtuse, argumentative, and trollish, or you're ignorant of pretty much everything on this topic.
You can tell us if you're ignorant or just trolling, I promise I won't assume one or the other :)
-
See Boroda, big difference in what we did and what the Chinese did. If you can't see that then your just ignorant, or like eagl said, your being a troll.
Heres a video of the debris left from the Chinese satellite that Wolfala posted on here, as you can see it left a large and hazards debris cloud now orbiting the planet.
Chinese Satellite Debris Cloud (http://www.stk.com/resources/animat...low/asatLow.wmv)
-
Originally posted by eagl
No. They did something completely different. We nailed a satellite drifting in low earth orbit that was about to re-enter on it's own. The Chinese nailed a functioning satellite in high orbit that could have been safely de-orbited. Ours resulted in a debris field of smallish parts that will relatively safely re-enter within a week or so. Theirs resulted in thousands of pieces of debris that will be a hazard to anything in orbit for many years, including the ISS and any other manned space vehicle launched for the next decade or so.
Huge difference, and of course I will point out that since you even asked that question, you're either being deliberately obtuse, argumentative, and trollish, or you're ignorant of pretty much everything on this topic.
You can tell us if you're ignorant or just trolling, I promise I won't assume one or the other :)
Oh God, Big time OWNED Boroda! I'd get drunk for a week after a verbal beating by a US Airforce pilot like this! Hide in a hole, it's best for your Soviet inferiority complex! :rofl :rofl
-
Originally posted by Ripsnort
Oh God, Big time OWNED Boroda! I'd get drunk for a week after a verbal beating by a US Airforce pilot like this! Hide in a hole, it's best for your Soviet inferiority complex! :rofl :rofl
Like Boroda needs an excuse to get drunk for a week. :p
-
Originally posted by AKIron
Like Boroda needs an excuse to get drunk for a week. :p
My sarcasm was that obvious, eh? :p
-
Originally posted by Boroda
Didn't Chinese do the same thing a year ago so you guys were screaming with faithful indignation?
Eagl beat me to the punch... Did russian news not mention those facts in eagl's post Boroda, or do you just conveniently omit them from your posts?
-
PWND:aok
-
Once again, Boroda proves that what he reads in Pravda isnt quite the truth. Poor Baghdad Boroda :)
-
And TBH I think that pretty much sticks a fork in any sort of credibility for him.
-
Great shot!
Almost as good as me in AH.
-
btw, that shot was setup so that the warhead was pretty much deadstick at the top of its trajectory, waiting for the sat to ram it.
So yeah, almost as good flying as yours Furball :D
-
Splattalite..
har har!
-
In Soviet Russia, you don't blow up satellite. Satellite blow up you!
(http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/3/3a/YakovSmirnoff.jpg)
-
Poor Baghdad Boroda
I don't care who you are, that is darn funny! :rofl :rofl
No offense intended Boroda, that just cracked me up. :D
-
Originally posted by rpm
In Soviet Russia, you don't blow up satellite. Satellite blow up you!
(http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/3/3a/YakovSmirnoff.jpg)
That guy is freaking hilarious!! :rofl
-
Originally posted by AKIron
Like Boroda needs an excuse to get drunk for a week. :p
Boroda trying to cut down again?
-
Kinda makes you wonder if the Sat was actually a threat or if we just wanted to make a point here?
A USN DD shoots down a satellite with a SM-3 wasnt it? Kinda sounds like a statement to me.
-
Originally posted by Boroda
I thought it was Boris Yeltsin :(
You are lucky, you can meet Clingon and throw a tomato at his face, while Yeltsin already rots in hell :mad:
If he's there, He might persuade Stalin to help him weight up the Sattelite debris :t
-
Originally posted by Rich46yo
Kinda makes you wonder if the Sat was actually a threat or if we just wanted to make a point here?
A USN DD shoots down a satellite with a SM-3 wasnt it? Kinda sounds like a statement to me.
I am not so sure - it was in low earth orbit. Other nations have already proved they can take them out at ranges far greater.
It is kinda akin to making a statement by buzzing aircraft carriers in your propellor driven bombers when the opposition has B-2s, you may think you are great, but everyone else thinks it is pointless and amusing.
-
yes, of course they hit it, , BUT if they had missed the amerahaters would have made a really big thing of it.
-
Furball it makes a big mess if you take them out higher.
Making that shot does make it obvious to everyone that the US can probably successfuly repeat the shot anywhere in the world's seas that its SM3-bearing ships can be deployed to.
-
Originally posted by eagl
No. They did something completely different. We nailed a satellite drifting in low earth orbit that was about to re-enter on it's own. The Chinese nailed a functioning satellite in high orbit that could have been safely de-orbited. Ours resulted in a debris field of smallish parts that will relatively safely re-enter within a week or so. Theirs resulted in thousands of pieces of debris that will be a hazard to anything in orbit for many years, including the ISS and any other manned space vehicle launched for the next decade or so.
So Chinese performed a much more difficult task.
Originally posted by eagl
Huge difference, and of course I will point out that since you even asked that question, you're either being deliberately obtuse, argumentative, and trollish, or you're ignorant of pretty much everything on this topic.
You can tell us if you're ignorant or just trolling, I promise I won't assume one or the other :)
You knew it! :D
Trolling here is so much fun :)
I just wonder how many of you guys here give a damn about space debris. OTOH the US sat shot down contained radioactive materials that may cause serious contamination.
-
Originally posted by Boroda
. OTOH the US sat shot down contained radioactive materials that may cause serious contamination.
this is true, but the US skillfully timed the shot to dump all the radioactive materials on Chernobyl so it's OK.
:lol
-
Originally posted by Ripsnort
Oh God, Big time OWNED Boroda! I'd get drunk for a week after a verbal beating by a US Airforce pilot like this! Hide in a hole, it's best for your Soviet inferiority complex! :rofl :rofl
???
verbal beating?
Soviet inferiority complex? it's you guys who suffer from inferiority complex, competing with Iran.
I find this "discussion" very educating, typical Western double-standards. Quo licit Jovi non licit bovi. "Kosovo is absolutely different from Abkhazia and South Osetia". "Chinese should not be allowed to shoot down satellites as we do!" etc ad nauseum.
As for getting drunk for a week - if you take this discussions on the Net so seriously - then maybe you have some problems, I am not a doctor...
-
Originally posted by john9001
this is true, but the US skillfully timed the shot to dump all the radioactive materials on Chernobyl so it's OK.
:lol
It seems to me that you use a word "Chernobyl" at least as often as "the".
-
Originally posted by Boroda
It seems to me that you use a word "Chernobyl" at least as often as "the".
Has it gone away yet? Maybe it will be creating a radiation hazard for a while yet?
-
Originally posted by Boroda
So Chinese performed a much more difficult task.
Really? How many of their DDs have shot down Sats? And while were at it how many ICBMs/IRBMs have they shot down with ABM missiles and Lasers?
Difficult indeed! If it wasnt for the Russians the Chinese wouldnt even have toilets.
-
Originally posted by Rich46yo
Really? How many of their DDs have shot down Sats? And while were at it how many ICBMs/IRBMs have they shot down with ABM missiles and Lasers?
You guys already shoot down satellites with lasers!? :eek:
-
Originally posted by Boroda
You guys already shoot down satellites with lasers!? :eek:
Not yet, but they have tested shooting down missiles with lasers and succeeded. I believe this was done with the laser mounted on the Boeing 747. If I am incorrect on this someone will jump in and correct me. :D
The Navy also expects to have rail guns mounted on ships in the next decade or so (?).
-
Originally posted by Elfie
Not yet, but they have tested shooting down missiles with lasers and succeeded. I believe this was done with the laser mounted on the Boeing 747. If I am incorrect on this someone will jump in and correct me. :D
No, it was sharks, with fricken lazer beams on their heads.
-
Originally posted by Boroda
You guys already shoot down satellites with lasers!? :eek:
Read it again before you come on with the funny faces. Or I'll find a funny face for someone who cant understand English.
-
Originally posted by Furball
No, it was sharks, with fricken lazer beams on their heads.
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl