To: skeeter
Looks like it failed upon exiting the Yellow Sea area, right about where it would make sense to intercept it if you were a Japanese AEGIS destroyer captain.
Aegis cannot do a BMD intercept within the atmopshere.
Rest assured this wasn't shot down.
To: Strategerist
I imagine Iran is kind of pissed off.
(Yes I am aware of news reports that Iran had bought three Chinese ICBMs for $18 billion, and so (if true) they wouldn't need this missile; there still remains the possibility that Korea was meant to have a missile of their own to provide diversion / cover for Iran. And now that's out the window.)
Just wondering if Israel had ought to do with this? /tin-foil>
Cheers!
37 posted on
04/12/2012 5:32:51 PM PDT by
grey_whiskers
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To: Strategerist
Your implication is such a missile must use its first stage and then some just to exit the atmosphere?
44 posted on
04/12/2012 5:48:57 PM PDT by
skeeter
To: Strategerist
I am guessing it probably blew during staging , or failed to stage right and crashed.
152 posted on
04/13/2012 8:09:15 PM PDT by
Rca2000
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