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North Korea Threatens To Strike US Aircraft Carrier To Show 'Military's Force'
Fox News ^ | April 23, 2017

Posted on 04/23/2017 4:57:25 AM PDT by Strategy

North Korea threatened Sunday to sink a U.S. aircraft carrier to demonstrate its military prowess as two Japanese navy ships joined a U.S. strike group for exercises in the Philippine Sea.

"Our revolutionary forces are combat-ready to sink a U.S. nuclear powered aircraft carrier with a single strike," according to North Korea's ruling Workers Party's newspaper, the Rodong Sinmum.

The paper also likened the USS Carl Vinson to a "gross animal" and said a strike on the carrier would be "an actual example to show our military's force."

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: japan; korea; northkorea; trump
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1 posted on 04/23/2017 4:57:25 AM PDT by Strategy
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To: Strategy

If he does any such thing, the fat little tyrant will be vaporized.


2 posted on 04/23/2017 4:59:25 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Strategy

Back when I was active, we trained and believed we could knock out a missle with one of our SM1 missles. I have to believe that capability has only improved since the 1970’s.


3 posted on 04/23/2017 5:04:07 AM PDT by exnavy (God save the republic.)
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To: Strategy

....little Kim is about a month or two from extinction. Either the Chinese or his own military is gonna bi*ch slap the creepy little snot silly.


4 posted on 04/23/2017 5:04:36 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Strategy

Back when I was active, we trained and believed we could knock out a missle with one of our SM1 missles. I have to believe that capability has only improved since the 1970’s.


5 posted on 04/23/2017 5:04:43 AM PDT by exnavy (God save the republic.)
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To: Strategy

“North Korea threatened Sunday to sink a U.S. aircraft carrier to demonstrate its military prowess “

That would be the LAST thing Kim Jong-un (and EVERYONE ELSE in North Korea) ever does.


6 posted on 04/23/2017 5:05:51 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Strategy

No. . .it would be an actual example to show how you turn a nation into a big parking lot of melted glass.


7 posted on 04/23/2017 5:06:13 AM PDT by McBuff
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To: Strategy

“Our revolutionary forces are combat-ready to sink a U.S. nuclear powered aircraft carrier with a single strike,”

It’s my understanding from reading various sources over the past few months. I thought I read somewhere these carriers are disassembled at high cost at a shipyard. They’re not sunk and used as artificial reef. The reason is because they’re remarkably difficult to sink for reasons that are classified.

Seems like an empty boast to me.


8 posted on 04/23/2017 5:14:15 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.)
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To: Samurai_Jack

Puffed up rhetoric from a puffball. It’s hard not to feel a trifle of pity though he has it coming and how for what he did to his people.


9 posted on 04/23/2017 5:22:31 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Strategy

This is not 1950 lard a**.


10 posted on 04/23/2017 5:22:50 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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"Our revolutionary forces are combat-ready to sink a U.S. nuclear powered aircraft carrier with a single strike."

Yeah...it'll be the mother of all battles.../s

11 posted on 04/23/2017 5:30:20 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Strategy

Well, I think I know where Baghdad Bob wound up.


12 posted on 04/23/2017 5:31:30 AM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: Samurai_Jack

Have a nephew who is about 20 yrs in the Navy and serves aboard one of these beasts. According to him, each Carrier has a surrounding task force containing several war ships including a submarine. Where the Carrier goes, the task force goes.

He also said the counter measures of these ships would be able to identify and stop any aircraft or ship before it gets with 150 miles of the task force.

He also said the ability to pick up, target and destroy incoming missiles (either above or below the surface) is as close to being 100% as today’s technology allows.

The Carriers are NOT invulnerable but they are able to launch a counter attack on who ever is attacking them before they suffer any damage because there are armed aircraft sitting on the flight deck ready to launch at moments notice when the ship is traveling under alert conditions.


13 posted on 04/23/2017 5:31:34 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: exnavy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_Defense

14 posted on 04/23/2017 5:32:48 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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FReepers have been showing their “parking lot glass” macho bravado for decades. Still waiting to see this.


15 posted on 04/23/2017 5:34:39 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Samurai_Jack

So it’s ok to blow them up anyway?


16 posted on 04/23/2017 5:35:43 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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Whose military force is the glorious leader referring to? NK or the USA?


17 posted on 04/23/2017 5:43:37 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as evey culture has its noodle.)
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To: Strategy

Well, have at it Kim.


18 posted on 04/23/2017 5:44:13 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: wardamneagle

Lard a**, in 1950s jargon was, Cisco Kid!
Maybe we should call him, Cisco Kim?


19 posted on 04/23/2017 5:49:37 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (" Winning not Whining"!)
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To: Strategy

Please do you fat little twerp. That would be an act of war and you’ll find a Tomahawk up your butt 20 minutes later!


20 posted on 04/23/2017 5:56:05 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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