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2006-08-18 Science & Technology

US to double anti-missile ships in Pacific

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-08-18 16:44|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Dear North Korea,

Your missile technology sucks and we own your ass.

Love,

Uncle Sam

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-08-18 16:58|| 2006-08-18 16:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Why doubling anti-missile ships when one missile ship may take a care of it?

Economy 101.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-08-18 17:00|| 2006-08-18 17:00|| Front Page Top

#3 It is eliminating a single point of failure.

Networking 101

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-08-18 17:03|| 2006-08-18 17:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Longer-range, intercontinental missiles travel faster than the current generation of ship-based interceptors, or about 6,000 miles an hour, he said. Japan and the United States are co-developing an advanced model, dubbed SM-3 Block 2, to tackle the long-range threat, with plans to deploy it by 2015.

! Go Navy! (Looks like a classic Air Force/Navy fight)

Posted by 6 2006-08-18 18:32|| 2006-08-18 18:32|| Front Page Top

#5 redundancy we American's like backup over backup over backup. :)

Posted by djohn66 2006-08-18 18:33|| 2006-08-18 18:33|| Front Page Top

#6 remove the troops - the cost of the ships' deployment should be taken from what we were spending to protect SK, and frankly publicized as such

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-08-18 18:45|| 2006-08-18 18:45|| Front Page Top

#7 FrankG - agree wholeheartedly, SK have been less than 'helpful' recently, and deserve a wakeup call (as does Europe by the way!!)

Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-08-18 19:19|| 2006-08-18 19:19|| Front Page Top

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