Posted on 08/09/2017 9:07:07 PM PDT by hapnHal
The easiest time to hit is early boost phase.
How silly would it be to ignore this fact and not make provision for it.
IMO, we have this covered and various systems can be re-tasked for it...if not some foolish heads should roll.
It’s a slow moving target with a great radar return... even a good anti-aircraft missile system should be able to hit it with a software change.
I’d bet that Russia’s s-500 could take them out and that the software is already in the system.... I hope we are not so far behind the s-500.
Heck, a guy half a mile away with a quad 20mm anti-aircraft gun could likely take them out in boost phase...especially with a bit of practice time.
They are basically big, thin-skinned lumbering tanks of fuel in boost phase.
Dem and NK responses are nearly indistinguishable.
China might not intervene just to test our capabilities.
“Alien jerky” - are there a lot of missing Messicans in your area for some unexplained reason? Eh Hannibal?
They would certainly be very interested in what we could do.
They will be on scene recording every bit of data.
I can’t see how an anti-aircraft system capable of mach15+ speeds and 200km+ range could fail to take out a lumbering gas tank rising slowly into the atmosphere.
Heck the s-500 is usable against incoming ballistic targets traveling at extreme velocity let alone a lumbering missile in boost phase...we can’t be that far behind them that we can’t do it as well.
The first stage of an ICBM is just a lot of fuel to get the missile slowly up to mach... you can avoid all that fuel by putting a smaller missile under the wing of a fighter jet and getting it up to speed before lighting it off. We have an old anti-sat system that works like that. You could mod that concept and have an intermediate range ICBM that used minimal fuel. The plane carrying the payload could certainly be taken out, just as the slowly moving ground launched missile in boost phase could be.
The NK ICBM seen in the recent launches seems to be two stage. 3 stage designs are better IMO... our missiles are mostly 3 stage with small thrusters used to change trajectory of the payload package to allow release of a single warhead on a precise trajectory. the payload package is re-adjusted for each warhead release. accuracy of each warhead is <100m
It’s not rocket science...errr, I guess it is at that :-)
By mid-August, the military will have completed its plans to launch four Hwasong-12 rockets over Japan and 18 miles off the coast of Guam, the statement says.
It will then report back to the commander-in-chief of the North Korean nuclear force and wait for his order.
This guy is telling everyone who will listen all about his next move.
That is Obama smart!
When you have to shoot, shoot!!, don’t talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTcBgs2huRo
the announced intentions are not the real intentions/ hope someone on our side has read sun tzu
The public has been kept ignorant by a media that is in part ignorant themselves and in part negligent. Count yourself among a minority that recognizes there is no peace treaty ending the Korean War; officially that state of war continues.
Fighting merely was temporarily set aside, in the form of an armistice - an agreement to a lull in the fighting. That’s all it is; an official pause, not an official end agreed to by both sides. No peace treaty has ever been signed by the opposing sides in the Korean War.
North Korea has never kept its people blind to that fact. Compared to the U.S. and South Korea that is the one area the regime in the north has been more honest with its people.
LOL!
Thank Bill Clintoon
ROFL!
Col. Ralph Peters saus that if we really want to show the Norks that we’re ready, one of the steps is to get the families and civilian contractors out of there.
http://nypost.com/2017/08/09/heres-how-to-take-out-north-koreas-nukes/
I don’t accept the premise. NK has enough security/military intelligence to KNOW we are ready. They don’t need public relations acts to “prove it”. They need that ONLY for convincing THEIR populace with their P.R. acts.
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