Posted on 08/15/2013 2:45:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
PYONGYANG, North Korea -- Missiles paraded through the streets of Pyongyang in recent displays of North Korean military might -- said to be capable of hitting targets throughout Asia and even in the U.S. -- are incapable of flight and are almost certainly nothing more than fakes, according to U.S. government experts and independent analysts.
"My opinion is that it's a big hoax," Markus Schiller, an aerospace engineer in Munich and former RAND Corp. military analyst, said of the intercontinental and medium-range missiles displayed in the North Korean capital in April 2012 and again two weeks ago.
U.S. government experts, having reviewed unclassified images from the most recent parade on July 27, including high-resolution photos provided by NBC News, agreed. Our assessment is that what we are looking at is most likely simulators used for training purposes, according to a statement to NBC News.
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Short for “retrograde”. Used for slowing down and steering.
I had to laugh, just the other day, when my 9 year old son very emphatically told me that North Korea fails at everything. I don’t know where he heard this or came up with it, but it was out of the blue and he said it so matter of factly.
Experts also say that Obamacare cannot fly but NBC Snooze ignores those critics.
Rivets? Rivets? It’s a piece of culvert pipe. And white wall tires-—gotta be the same ones the Russians used back in the 1960’s.
ICBMs don’t obtain a normal space orbit, they use retro-rockets to “deorbit” to reach their target.
Meaning, they go into space but don’t orbit like a satellite, they come back down. You would have to use all kinds of thrusters to pinpoint where you wanted it to come down at.
i still learn something new everyday, thx
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