Posted on 02/07/2003 7:14:07 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Yomiuri Shimbun of Japan reported in its Beijing dispatch on Feb. 8, 2003 that China successfully conducted the MIRV test on December, 2002, using Dong-Feng 21.
The report quoted Chinese sources as saying, "The missile launch test was conducted in mid-December last year at a PLA strategic missile base in Shaxi province, and MIRV technology was apparently employed."
This is apparently the first Chinese success of the MIRV missile test.
China is making feverish efforts to counter American Missile Defense technology and this shows that they made a meaningful progress, the paper reports.
China could not deploy MIRV missiles right away right after this successful test. But They could improve its accuracy and try to push for the early deployment of the missiles, the report adds.
That is so kwel! How'd they do that? Wow!
Can we do that?
While we may not be able to go invisible yet, we can now play ghosts. Ghosts are see-through but not entirely invisible. A great PsyOp device for people in some parts of world. They would even surrender without a fight.:)
I am. And that's what I thought as well. Because I loooooathe Clinton, too. By the way, Why wasn't Bob on today? Same thing with O'Reilly and Savage. It makes me think Mike From East Meadow, Monica, George From Albany and Eugene from Brooklyn finally got to him. He probably said "You know, I gotta get outta here, I gotta get outta here. Somebody take over the program." You may reach for the Digitalis after reading this, but maybe they were warned not to show up today for some reason. Why would I say something like that? because... "Somebody's got to say these things...It might as well be me!!!"
Straight ahead!
Let's add a little more detail: the side that has downloaded its missiles to a single warhead apiece has 500 ICBMs, and the side going for MIRVing has 100 missiles.
Additionally, the side with the 500 missiles also has 432 submarine-based missiles...with 6-8 MIRVs apiece, BTW.
Who ya gonna bet on?
And when we finally get our missile defense capabilities--and then give the technology to China--wouldn't "more" warheads mean "better"? or would they just sneak them in across the border or through O'Hare airport. It's cheaper that way, and we seem more than willing to oblige them.
This MIRV test probably has much more to do with India than the US. Details, who knows...
Sounds like an envy problem, IMO.
There's ONE country with the disposable income to do that, and that country is the US of A.
China is Enron with a small nuclear arsenal. By the time they get a moderate-sized one together, they'll be shooting 'em at each other instead of us.
MIRV missiles are against all potential adversaried of China. But the big fish is America, which is followed by India.
......And the Democrats are dedicated to keeping it that way.
With 1.) foreign investors pulling out of the USA, 2.) new tax laws discouraging foreign investment, 3.)future terrorist attacks damaging the economy, 4.) America's vanishing manufacturing industry, and 5.) China's growing economy... (former US manufacturing jobs and investment going to China) How before they equal, or surpass us?
China doesn't care about now...They care about tomorrow. Every thing I see, read, hear clearly states that the people in charge have no idea what tomorrow brings.
I did read the thread and its links. India is a concern for China. That I agree. But I think that MIRV is more useful for countering American missile defense than single-warhead Indian Agni-III. To counter Indian ICBM, having more single-warhead ICBMs will solve the problem. Having MIRV makes China keep the edge over India, though.
That is where Rumsfeld is heading. He is literally knocking teeth out of military brass to force them to make rooms for full fledged space force. But it will take some time and a lot of money.
Imagine lines like "They can put a man on the moon, but we can't get affordable health care" coming from the usual suspects.
Although, to be fair, I've only heard calls for inreased funding for the space program.
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