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2007-01-06 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by tu3031 2007-01-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Careful, NKors. Japan is just spoilin' to kick your ass. You are like a fly taunting the elephant.

Posted by SpecOp35 2007-01-06 00:20|| 2007-01-06 00:20|| Front Page Top

#2 The plural of samurai is samurai. :)

Posted by gromky 2007-01-06 02:22|| 2007-01-06 02:22|| Front Page Top

#3 A thousand Honda's for the Emperor!

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-06 06:20|| 2007-01-06 06:20|| Front Page Top

#4 The Norks are just envious of the samurai, since most of them will never be corpulent...

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-01-06 07:56|| 2007-01-06 07:56|| Front Page Top

#5 IONews, INTERFAX.ru/Other > Russian Navy will hold more Joint + Strategic NAVEX's in 2007 + Russian strategic aviation will hold more OTH training flights over the seas + Russia needs more smaller but potent Hunter-Killer attack subs. STRATEGYPAGE > China to selectively modernize wid hi-tech circa 20% of PLA Army divisions + other Units.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-01-06 09:24|| 2007-01-06 09:24|| Front Page Top

#6 See also NORKIE NEWS, aka KCNA.com via DRUDGE < NK accuses Japan of kowtowing to US masters/overlords/imperialists by agreeing to intercept missles on way to USA + allowing nuke-armed US warships passage to Koreas via Japanese waters. Also accuse Japan in separate article of helping USA start a new inter-Korean War as cover to enter back [read in NK-speak- abuse, dominate and reconquer] Asia as before and during WW2. WORLDNEWS > NK accuses USA of practicing for aerial strikes agz it.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-01-06 10:05|| 2007-01-06 10:05|| Front Page Top

#7 There is also some interesting subtle slams in there. The use of the island country term for example, as in, that island not part of glourious main land Asia. Those not as pure as us, etc.

Posted by bombay">bombay 2007-01-06 11:09|| 2007-01-06 11:09|| Front Page Top

#8 JosephMendiola, back in the day I used to sit iron bomb alert at Andersen AFB with North Korean targets, mostly power generation facilities IIRC. When the heavy hitting is done in North Korea, it will come in the form of B-52s, B-1s, and B-2s from Andersen. The carrier F-18s will suppress the NorK fighters and SAMs.

Posted by RWV 2007-01-06 14:09|| 2007-01-06 14:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Sonny Chiba's gonna kick their asses.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-01-06 14:36|| 2007-01-06 14:36|| Front Page Top

#10 RVW: Prety good analysis of air power. You left out the carrier-based EA-6B ECM assets. There is a squadron of them based @ Atsugi Japan (VAQ-136, IIRC) and MCAS Iwakuni could host a squadron or two also. The Prowlers are the only ECM assets left to the US since the EF-111s were retired, but I suspect they could be reactivated w/in 3 or 4 months. Any USAF ECM experts out there that could / would elaborate?

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-01-06 19:45|| 2007-01-06 19:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Not an expert, but the USAF uses podded ECM such as ALQ-131 and ALQ-184. Not as powerful at blanking out half a continent as dedicated platforms. There were also plans to add high power ECM pods on B-52 wing pylons for standoff jamming, but don't know the current status. Doesn't really matter since the NorKs have nothing to challenge US EW.

Posted by ed 2007-01-06 21:03|| 2007-01-06 21:03|| Front Page Top

#12 Thanks, I figure that all that is needed, ECM-wise, is enough to jam the SAM sites; even if they do light up, the Prowlers can put a HARM down their chimney after locking into the radar signal.

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-01-06 21:49|| 2007-01-06 21:49|| Front Page Top

#13 The F-16's carry their own HARMs and target them via their radar warning receivers. Their was an instance in the 2003 Iraq invasion when a Patriot battery (older revision Patriot radar/fire control plus software error) locked onto an F-16 and the F-16 pilot immediate fired a HARM and shredded that radar.

Posted by ed 2007-01-06 21:59|| 2007-01-06 21:59|| Front Page Top

#14 Cool, I did not know that, thanks.
I read that there were some F-16s being retired last week; are all the Falcons going away, or is it just some of the older models?

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-01-06 22:44|| 2007-01-06 22:44|| Front Page Top

#15 F-16/D Block 20s and 30s have/are being retired or sent to the ANG. Even a few Block 42s are retiring.

Posted by ed 2007-01-06 22:50|| 2007-01-06 22:50|| Front Page Top

#16 F-16 C/D.

Posted by ed 2007-01-06 22:51|| 2007-01-06 22:51|| Front Page Top

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