Posted on 02/21/2008 5:27:51 AM PST by CarrotAndStick
Watch as General Cartwright, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (and apparently Jack Bauer's older brother) shows how the Aegis missile launches and successfully destroys the rogue spy satellite.
[Via Gizmodo]
BTTT
Wow. There’s a leap in logical conclusions.
It was very impressive, but I'm afraid you're reading far too much into it. Shooting down this particular satellite is in no way comparable to shooting down a ballistic missile. Yes, the sat was moving quickly, but the similarity between the two scenarios ends there.
We had weeks to target to this satellite, run numbers, do a simulation, back to numbers and try again until it works out. We'd have minutes to take down an ICBM.
You should also note that we moved this event back a day due to weather. We won't be able to count on a foreign power launching a missile under ideal intercept conditions.
What we did show the world is that their sats are very vulnerable to our weapons. We've demonstrated that we can take out any enemy satellite from a mobile location anywhere on the ocean.
Also by not doing it in the most adverse conditions (like sea stae 5) they don’t know the capabilites.
I think we could have, they think we could have, we know that they think we could have...but they aren’t sure.
Leaves ‘em wondering.
YES!!! Go NAVY!!!!
A thought passed through my mind....Hillary & Bill would probably love to get this info into their files as table talk on a lavish visit to China or hosting one of their buddies on our soil. They probably need the money after Hillary’s spending spree!
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- China last week successfully used a missile to destroy an orbiting satellite, U.S. government officials told CNN on Thursday, in a test that could undermine relations with the West and pose a threat to satellites important to the U.S. military. According to a spokesman for the National Security Council, the ground-based, medium-range ballistic missile knocked an old Chinese weather satellite from its orbit about 537 miles above Earth. The missile carried a "kill vehicle" and destroyed the satellite by ramming it.
That would put creeps like Vladimir Putin out of business.
cool! :-)
Wow!
And during those minutes, each ICBM would be targeted by several missiles, not one. And the point of origin of the ICBMs would cease to exist in a matter of minutes.
Where do I send the bleeping bill? You owe me a bleeping keyboard!! LOL!
Make me proud to be an American! Buy me a new keyboard!
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Chinese shot a satellite at 500 miles up. The result? Hazardous debris for years if not decades. Lots of satellites go in that range. Thanks a LOT, china. and they dare say they are concerned about last night's debris. Asswipes.The difference here is that the satellite was at 140 miles up. While they say that it was to shoot down and save us from the Hydrazine, which is highly toxic, we know they actually didn't want all the stuff there to be possibly retreived by other countries (Let's not be naive, eh?). But the excuse was good, I'll give them that. The danger chances were low but hey, if we can get rid of it, why the hell not?
Now, at 140 miles up, most of the debris will burn down the atmosphere in 24-48 hours. I'd give the most resiliant a week. Lots of folks said they saw a possible Hydrazine trail, so it looks like the fuel tank's planned destruction it worked too. At least it must've leaked the stuff out.
China: BAD BAD BAD. STUPIDLY DONE. SLOPPY JOB. US: Good. I won't use caps or overexcitement because I'm not sure it was absolutely necessary, but there, it's done. It was a clean kill, they were intelligent about it too. They waited for proper satellite decay before making it go away. Very good job.
Thanks for the reply! Let me ask another question if you don’t mind. You say that the missile that shot down the satellite was a “Star Wars” missile and I take it this is the very type of missile that the liberals all screamed about back in Reagans days that they did not want developed?
I bet Pootie Poot was watching.
Or how will they communicate without any of their sattelites
Where did the debris land?
I didn’t hear her say it, but if the statement is true....Michelle keeps digging herself and him in deeper. Keep her talking....What we don’t need in this country is a socialist wife and a communist husband in our Whitehouse. Plus a couple of millionaires pretending they can “fix” the living standards of us all, to match theirs? or fix the living standards just a couple of steps below theirs.
Radio guy this morning joked that it probably landed in Kucinich's back yard. LOL
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