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South Korea Confirms That A Direct Heavy Torpedo Sank The Cheonan, Won't Accuse North Korea
The Business Insider ^
| 5-1-2010
| Gus Lubin
Posted on 05/01/2010 7:16:49 AM PDT by blam
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posted on
05/01/2010 7:16:49 AM PDT
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blam
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
05/01/2010 7:19:25 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: blam
Heavy Torpedo Sank The Cheonan, Won't Accuse North Korea
Because those wild rouge torpedo's are just wandering around the ocean looking for ships.
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posted on
05/01/2010 7:22:30 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: blam
There wasn't very much information at the link about their economy. Is the implication being made that the south either cannot afford to go to war or that the infrastructure for war does not exist?
If either of these things are the issue, a counter strike that resulted in war would assume our assistance. I'm not sure we have the military capacity to engage in this. A nuke war might result if conventional forces are not adequate.
And China in that event?
To: blam
Yu-3 Anti-Submarine Torpedo
from http://www.sinodefence.com/navy/weapon/yu3.asp
They must have calculated from the damage the required explosive and backed into which torpedo
This does not look like it would launch form a "small" sub.
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posted on
05/01/2010 7:30:46 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
To: blam
http://www.sinodefence.com/navy/weapon/yu3.asp
The Yu-3 is an acoustic-homing, submarine-launched, anti-submarine warfare (ASW) torpedo designed by Xian Precision Machinery Institute (705 Institute, a subordinate of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation). Initially developed for China’s nuclear submarine programme, it is Chinas first indigenous anti-submarine torpedo and entered service with the PLA navy in the mid-1980s. An improved variant known as Yu-3II (also known as Zhonhuaxun-II or ET-32 in its export names) was introduced in the 1990s.
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posted on
05/01/2010 7:32:03 AM PDT
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Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
To: johniegrad
I’m pretty sure we have the military capacity. But SK has to know that we very likely do not have the political capacity.
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posted on
05/01/2010 7:33:33 AM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Can around 25-30% moonbat base really steal the country from us and hold it?)
To: Army Air Corps
S. Korean military recovered debris made up of some aluminum compound. They think composition of debris are different from materials used to build Cheonan. Since many torpedoes are made of aluminum compound, they suspect the debris from the torpedo which hit Cheonan. The investigation is still on-going and there is no final word on this yet.
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05/01/2010 7:36:10 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: johniegrad
It means that they have an entire city worth of people living in harms way of a enormous number of mortars and artillery.
It means that they suspect that the attacker is already on a war footing and that they are clearly not. So any war that they provoke right now would result in heavy initial losses.
To: johniegrad
once they make the accusation, they are obligated to declare war.
they had better be sure of their allies positions (big 0) before they trigger something.
especially if the twerps might just have a nuke.
To: blam
While the world sits on its as@ there is no doubt that North Korea must be destroyed. King Obama is a fool not to announce full support to South Korea and those responsible will be punished. Fat Chance!!!! This empty suit nitwit is a coward and North Korea could be crushed in a week. Nukes.
To: blam
He left out Iran.
Iran is begging for war and if America is distracted in Korea, it is to their benefit
from wiki
Being one of Iran’s largest defense expenditures, the Nahang submarine is Iran’s second attempt at designing and manufacturing submarines. In service since March 2006, the Nahang 1 is fully compatible to conditions in the Persian Gulf.
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posted on
05/01/2010 7:50:13 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
To: blam
Let's consider who could have fired the torpedo. China could be blowing up foreign ships to prove its dominance in the region. A Soviet submarine that never came home could be on the rampage. Al Qaeda might have their own submarine. Or it could be the militaristic rogue state next door that has a long history of nearly provoking war. SPECTRE?
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posted on
05/01/2010 7:54:25 AM PDT
by
Oratam
To: blam
Who the hell is their President these days-it it BO’s half-brother Chung Lee Hussein-Soetero-Kim?
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posted on
05/01/2010 8:01:20 AM PDT
by
Mac from Cleveland
("See what you made me do?" Major Malik Hasan)
To: blam
Looks like democracies are going down the drain again, if we’re afraid to point the finger at North Korea. So what stupid thing will the North Koreans do next?
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posted on
05/01/2010 8:04:36 AM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(The enormous crimes in history were all perpetrated by governments.)
To: blam
Actually the torpedo was launch by the flock of birds they were shooting at.
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posted on
05/01/2010 8:04:52 AM PDT
by
BushCountry
(scratch here ############################### to reveal my thoughts on the Obama Administration.)
To: blam
Interesting (and odd) they have so specifically identified the weapon. Was the SK navy running a live fire exercise at the time of the sinking? IOW, did they accidentally sink their own ship and are now looking for a way to cover that up?
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posted on
05/01/2010 8:05:39 AM PDT
by
stormer
To: bert
That’s why they call them world wars.
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posted on
05/01/2010 8:10:21 AM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Can around 25-30% moonbat base really steal the country from us and hold it?)
To: blam
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posted on
05/01/2010 8:12:17 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: blam
I sure if South Korea just keeps quite, assigns no blame and does nothing that North Korea will see the error of its ways and be good from here on out. Right?
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