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2006-07-06 China-Japan-Koreas

Interceptors were ready for NKor missile

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Posted by Steve White 2006-07-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Put Mad Halfbright and Wendy Sherman into the nose of the ABM before firing

Posted by Captain America 2006-07-06 00:40|| 2006-07-06 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Didn't see anything wid the local Guard and Reserves, but the USAF had two heavily armed F-15's flying non-stop around the island - wouldn't surprise me one bit iff the birds were armed wid air-launched BMD missles.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-07-06 02:58|| 2006-07-06 02:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Poor Kimmie. He can't keep his Dong from blowing early.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-07-06 09:49|| 2006-07-06 09:49|| Front Page Top

#4 We ought to use MK's missile tests as a means of testing our anti-missile defenses. They shoot them off and we try to shoot it down.

Seems that if they fire a missile over international waters it ought to be fair game.

Posted by DoDo 2006-07-06 11:23|| 2006-07-06 11:23|| Front Page Top

#5 , there was "far too little time to make a decision on whether to shoot it down, said Victoria Samson, an expert on missile defense at the private Center for Defense Information."

Some expert. Wrong. I can't say why, but if you think it through and think of the flight phases and the defenses available at each phase, and the reaction time for each phase - you'll see how simple the solution is and how wrong their "expert" is.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-07-06 12:24|| 2006-07-06 12:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Their "experts" are only experts in making Bush and the US look bad.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-07-06 12:31|| 2006-07-06 12:31|| Front Page Top

#7 The U.S. Northern Command, which operates the interceptors in Alaska and California as part of its homeland defense mission, said it was "able to determine quickly the missiles posed no threat to (the) United States or its territories."

If they were able to determine threat/no threat within 40 seconds post-ignition, a shoot-down decision should have followed on immediately. Actually, I assume the decision tree was determined shortly after fuelling began, and the decision was made around Second 60. Of course, I'm not an expert on missile defense at the private Center for Defense Information, so my assumptions are worth what you just didn't pay for them. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-06 13:03|| 2006-07-06 13:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Vader, don't you know? They have Nodong.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2006-07-06 13:25|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2006-07-06 13:25|| Front Page Top

#9 While they may be able to resolve the trajectory in less than a minute, can they traverse the chain of command to get approval to shoot? Given that it can take a half hour to get approval to off al-Q high value targets, I'm not optomistic. And this was a shot we'd been waiting a week for. What if they try not to telegraph the punch next time?

I think we were lucky it blew apart this time. Next time, we'll be very ready, including the Japanese. That's Kimmie's real problem now.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-06 13:26|| 2006-07-06 13:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Nimble, ever heard of release to local battery? Especially for boost-phase elements in a high threat environment. You're wrong on this.

NMD has had a longer lead time and has figured this one out, unlike those CYA desk-bound morons that wanted a lawyer and signed PDD every time they dumped on a hival target.

Remeber, this is a NCA that delegates, and so does Rummy's military.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-07-06 13:51|| 2006-07-06 13:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Down to the battery or ship? On a ship that would be a Captain. Is it a Colonel in the Army or Air Force?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-06 14:05|| 2006-07-06 14:05|| Front Page Top

#12 What makes you guys so sure we didn't shoot it down?

Ahem.

Posted by Bobby 2006-07-06 15:00|| 2006-07-06 15:00|| Front Page Top

#13 "Failure to Launch" was on Kimmie's Netflex wish list, too, daggammit.

Posted by Capsu78 2006-07-06 16:27|| 2006-07-06 16:27|| Front Page Top

#14 Apparently the DingDong2 was out of control as soon as it cleared the tower. They've been trying to develop vectored thrust control and maybe haven't got the hang of it quite yet. It was veering so far off a "normal" trajectory that we couldn't even compute probable path. I doubt we would have intercepted unless we felt certain it was weaponized or we thought it would hit Japan. It would be to our advantage to see what their current capabilities are. Remember, this thing will be going to Iran, who funded it's development. We need to know as much about flight parameters as possible.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-07-06 19:00|| 2006-07-06 19:00|| Front Page Top

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