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2007-12-18 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2007-12-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 See also TOPIX > JAPAN IS FIRST US ALLY TO CONDUCT SUCCESSFUL MISSLE INTERCEPT TEST.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-12-18 01:30|| 2007-12-18 01:30|| Front Page Top

#2 But it may also deepen concerns in Beijing that Tokyo could use the technology to help the U.S. defend Taiwan if conflict erupted with China.

That's a feature, not a bug, you AP twits.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2007-12-18 07:57|| 2007-12-18 07:57|| Front Page Top

#3 The Kongo's namesake predecessor:

The IJN Kongo was commissioned in August 1913 and became one of Japans fastest battleships. Then in 1936-37, she underwent a second modernization to increase her speed to above thirty knots. Her first modernization thrust her into the battleship class. With their increased speed and armament, the Kongo became a valuable asset in World War II. She participated in the Malayan Peninsula and Java invasions and bombarded Christmas Island. She also helped out in raiding the British shipping lines in the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal. She was also present at the Battle of Midway. In 20 October 1944, the Kongo sailed with the rest of the Japanese Navy for a counter strike against the US navy at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. She survived that battle and later attacks against her, but on the 21st of November, 1944, she was torpedoed by the US submarine Sealion and sank.
http://www.ussmissouri.com/Battleship-Japanese.htm

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-12-18 08:37|| 2007-12-18 08:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Israel, India, Japan... It seems a lot of people are having a go with missile defenses various Nobel laureates screeched were impossible to build.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-12-18 10:37|| 2007-12-18 10:37|| Front Page Top

#5 To protect against threats those same experts screech cannot possibly exist.

Posted by Seafarious 2007-12-18 10:46|| 2007-12-18 10:46|| Front Page Top

#6 No comment from the Chicoms? I'm disappointed.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-12-18 11:40|| 2007-12-18 11:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Video

Posted by ed 2007-12-18 14:22|| 2007-12-18 14:22|| Front Page Top

#8 video of the Indian ABM test

A picture from a console in the Indian DRDO Mission Control Centre on Wheeler Island showing the trajectories of the target and interceptor missiles, the interception point, and the tracks of the debris.

Posted by john frum 2007-12-18 14:43|| 2007-12-18 14:43|| Front Page Top

#9 No comment from the Chicoms? I'm disappointed.

Chinese proliferation of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles to its client rogue states like North Korea and Pakistan (who are unable to build machine tools, automobile engines, tractors etc yet now possess nuclear missiles) in order to tie down regional rivals like Japan, South Korea and India, will result in China itself being ringed by ABM systems eventually capable of shooting down Chinese missiles and offensive systems (ICBMs) aimed at Chinese cities.

So much for Chinese strategic thought.

The desire by Mao to "teach India a lesson" for the temerity of upstaging China at the Bandung Non-Aligned conference, gave China part of Kashmir (an ice desert) but halted the steady disbanding of the Indian Army by Nehru (who disliked the military quite intensely) and resulted in permanent Indian distrust of China and the aiming of Indian nuclear weapons at Chinese cities.

Posted by john frum 2007-12-18 19:07|| 2007-12-18 19:07|| Front Page Top

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