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2008-12-26 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Besoeker 2008-12-26 04:17|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 "The guilty man flee-eth, when no man pursue."

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-12-26 08:40|| 2008-12-26 08:40|| Front Page Top

#2 So... what's the engagement radius of those modified-for-ABM AEGIS cruisers I've been hearing so much about? How fast could we deploy the ground-based stuff they've been testing in Alaska?

I have no fears for the Indian Army's ability to deal with the mustachio'd joke which is the Pakistani Armed Forces. But nobody can outrun a healthy salvo of nukes, no matter how ineptly operated or deployed.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-12-26 10:35|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-12-26 10:35|| Front Page Top

#3 The Paki would be forced by straited circumstances to deliver the vast majority of their n00ks via F-16z or FreightLiner. So an ABM system isn't necessary at the moment. Still it would be a nice gesture.....

Posted by .5MT 2008-12-26 10:51|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-12-26 10:51|| Front Page Top

#4 We ought to move the airborne laser into the area for some cheap tests... with real free targets...

I mean these days everybody needs to trim costs...

Posted by 3dc 2008-12-26 12:15|| 2008-12-26 12:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Given how easily the ISI/L-e-T terrorists infiltrated Mumbai, I'm pretty sure the Paks could slip a nuke or two into India. Therein is the problem.

Posted by Steve White 2008-12-26 12:23|| 2008-12-26 12:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Are Pak nukes that portable? I got the impression that they barely fit on a big honking ballistic missile. So we're talking shipping containers here, right?

Once they start handing out shipping-container nukes to random six-degrees-of-Hamid-Gul yahoos, we're all fucked, though.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-12-26 12:40|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-12-26 12:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Are the nuclear bombs produced by the Land of the Pure actually functioning? Or have they rusted through due to poor maintenance based on djinn-physics protocols? If so, slipping the things in anywhere becomes a different problem than that intended by the slippers.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-12-26 13:29|| 2008-12-26 13:29|| Front Page Top

#8 The creation of Pakistan as an independent nation is obviously, in retrospect, a major mistake. It's time to correct it. Let India do whatever it wishes up to the Indus River (Since the name "India" was derived by Alexander from the name of the river, it would only be just to use it as India's Western boundary). The US should land a couple of batallions of Marines and another couple of SeeBees at Karachi, and start working north. THe SeeBees would be tasked with developing a major road/rail network between Karachi and Kabul. The Marines would be there to see that nobody interferes. In the meantime, the US should ARCLIGHT the HE$$ out of the NWFP, and level Peshawar, giving the Pashtuns the lesson that you don't mess with the US if you want to live - something not brought home to them yet. All land not allocated to India would be given to Afghanistan, after we have a long, heart-to-heart with Karzai about inbred stupidity.

India has a very good, very accurate, and very functional air defense system. They may not have a working ICBM/IRBM/MRBM system yet, but they're working on it, and I think Israel has already shipped them a couple of "ARROW" systems. The average nuke is only functional for about five years, then needs some major overhaul. Whether Pakistan adheres to a regular maintenance cycle is something I wouldn't want to learn from experience.

The AEGIS/PAC-3 has a range of about 800 miles, IIRC, but I think that's based on ships at sea.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-12-26 13:46|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-12-26 13:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Drink up! :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-12-26 13:52|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-12-26 13:52|| Front Page Top

#10 crap. I wazza reading this at work and had to take the afternoon off due to drinking

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-12-26 18:29|| 2008-12-26 18:29|| Front Page Top

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