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2005-06-21 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Spavirt Pheng6042 2005-06-21 07:36|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Redneck Missle Test gone wrong.

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Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-06-21 08:15|| 2005-06-21 08:15|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-06-21 08:17|| 2005-06-21 08:17|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-06-21 08:18|| 2005-06-21 08:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Just lovely, Deacon Blues. (/sarcasm) Is this your usual level of discourse?

Posted by too true 2005-06-21 09:33|| 2005-06-21 09:33|| Front Page Top

#5 No, too true, but somehow it just seemed appropriate. If India can develope a viable missle defense The Pakistanis, and to some extent the Chinese, will have to re-think their attitudes about confrontation with India and I think we should strengthen ties with India as a counter to Pakistan especially. It's true Pakistan did help us in Afghanistan for a time but it seems their actions now have gone back to at least clandestinely helping our enemies in Afghanistan. I'm not sure anyone knows just how much control Musharraf has. Evidence to this is Bin Laden is most likely in Pakistan (if he is still alive) and the Pakistani Army is unable or unwilling to go get him. There are people in Pakistan who know the utter folley of allowing the Islamofascists to get control of a nuclear weapon and I think Musharraf knows that would be the death of Pakistan but the Islamofascists are hell-bent on achieving martyrdom and if they go out in a blaze of niclear fire and just happen to take millions of innocent people with them they don't care. Having India with a viable missle defense seems to me to be a good thing.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-06-21 10:17|| 2005-06-21 10:17|| Front Page Top

#6 *Darn* i didn't get a chance to see those pics!

Posted by Red Dod 2005-06-21 11:11|| 2005-06-21 11:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Missile tested for third time

India Completes Hat-Trick of Surface-To-Air Missile Tests
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, BHUBANESWAR, India

India successfully tested June 21 a locally-built surface-to-air missile for the third time in five days as part of final trials before its military induction, defense officials said.

The missile Akash -- meaning sky in Hindi -- was tested at a range in eastern Orissa state, defense ministry officials said in Orissaâs state capital of Bhubaneswar.

It was fired at 1:00 pm (0730 GMT) from a mobile launcher at the Chandipur-on-Sea testing range, 200 kilometers (125 miles) northeast of Bhubaneswar, they said.

The 700 kilogram (1,540 pound) missile was tested June 21 and last June 17.

âComprehensive trials are now on to test various subsystems. Todayâs launch was to monitor its propulsion and communications systems,â a scientist at the state-run Defense Research and Development organization said in New Delhi.

âThe trials are reaching a conclusion and this missile will be soon handed over for induction into the (defense) services,â he told Agence France-Presse.

Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan, who came close to war in 2002 but whose relations have warmed since, frequently test-fire missiles.

Akash, which can track 100 targets simultaneously with onboard radar, can move at a speed of 600 meters (1,980 feet) a second and deliver a 55 kilogram (121 pound) warhead across 27 kilometers (17 miles) in 50 seconds.

The missile is being developed by DRDO which launched in 1983 a project to build an array of weapons. It hopes to cap the program with a ballistic missile which can fly 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles).

In 1999, a year after India and Pakistan tested nuclear weapons, the two countries agreed to notify each other ahead of missile tests.

Posted by john 2005-06-21 17:16|| 2005-06-21 17:16|| Front Page Top

#8 There are reports that the US has cleared the Patriot PAC-3 for export to India.
Russia is offering the S300.

Posted by john 2005-06-21 17:18|| 2005-06-21 17:18|| Front Page Top

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