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2006-07-04 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Sherry 2006-07-04 16:33|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 CNN is now reporting that a third missile, theTaepodong 2 was launched also but busted up in mid flight(intercepted?).

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-07-04 17:07|| 2006-07-04 17:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Bet there's some Navy guys and others whooping it up on a boat right now. Let's hope we get to it before the Norks do. The game is on for some folks right now.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-07-04 17:11|| 2006-07-04 17:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Now Drudge is reporting a fourth missile?
What the hell is going on over there? Is Kimmie celebrating the 4th of July or what?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-07-04 17:17|| 2006-07-04 17:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Decoys to distract, maneuver our of position our elint assets. Also possibly to attract BMD activity.

Apparently the Taepodong was launched and broke up. Hope we assisted in that. In any case, we should claim credit.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-04 17:34|| 2006-07-04 17:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Nimble: Maybe it would have better effect just to neither confirm nor deny knowing or not knowing anything about how North Korea's stupid Big Dong missile prematurely fizzled out! :-)

I suppose this thing is full of LOX or something. Should it be generating a plume of evaporated fuel? Is it?

Posted by grb 2006-07-04 17:42|| 2006-07-04 17:42|| Front Page Top

#6 NK has about 1000 SCUD and larger types. They can spare a few to wish us a Happy July 4th.

Posted by ed 2006-07-04 17:45|| 2006-07-04 17:45|| Front Page Top

#7 LOX is far too sophisticated for their engines.
Likely red fuming nitric acid and UDMH.

Posted by john 2006-07-04 17:46|| 2006-07-04 17:46|| Front Page Top

#8 If there's any way we can claim credit, it would really reduce the attractiveness for export of the TPD-2. It would be nice to nip Kimmie market.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-04 17:59|| 2006-07-04 17:59|| Front Page Top

#9 When it was on the pad they fueled it way early. This raised eyebrows because the stuff is just a biatch to siphon off if you don't launch, and is so corrosive that you had better not leave it in the missile for any length of time.

Maybe the Nkors were in a "use it or lose it" situation, and by the time they shot, it had corroded to the point where it failed.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-04 18:14|| 2006-07-04 18:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Whatever the *actual* reason for failure -- we should claim we did it to them.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2006-07-04 18:28|| http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/]">[http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2006-07-04 18:28|| Front Page Top

#11 I have heard very little about the current status of the Airborne Laser. The type of failure that happened is exactly what this system would produce.

Posted by Patrick 2006-07-04 20:00|| 2006-07-04 20:00|| Front Page Top

#12 Forget airborne laser - we should all be thinking shipboard laser, as with the Navy test program with a high-powered laser added to a fleet destroyer. I'm sure a test of that beauty would also cause a bit of damage. Also, a nice microwave-frequency weapon would do the same thing by "encouraging" failure among valves, pipes, and other metal parts that could be induced to vibrate. There are so many choices of research weaponry the NORKS will never know which one we used, or how successful it was.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-07-04 20:46|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-07-04 20:46|| Front Page Top

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