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2006-06-23 Home Front: WoT
Successful missile intercept in US sea-based defense test
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Posted by Steve White 2006-06-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 NK ready for an Aegis based splash?
Posted by 3dc 2006-06-23 00:13||   2006-06-23 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Damn that's awesome!
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-06-23 00:16||   2006-06-23 00:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Look down below for title Japanese Aegis and click to go see video of the Japanese Aegis.
Posted by Sherry">Sherry  2006-06-23 00:23||   2006-06-23 00:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Late model SM-2s can also intercept shorter range ballistic missiles in the atmosphere.
Posted by ed 2006-06-23 00:29||   2006-06-23 00:29|| Front Page Top

#5 MSM headline:

SM-3 FAILS! To miss its target. Again.

That funny sound you hear is the "It'll never work!" crowd collectively grinding their teeth into powder...
Posted by PBMcL 2006-06-23 01:09||   2006-06-23 01:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Just in time for Taepodong Tuesday at the Juche Bar!
Posted by Mike 2006-06-23 08:33||   2006-06-23 08:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Go ahead, launch NKorea. We need to keep testing and training anyway.
Posted by DarthVader 2006-06-23 09:30||   2006-06-23 09:30|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't know if I remember right, but we probably owe a good bit of thanks to the Japanese on this program.

I think it's either their Radar or telemetry system that was finally able to feed the right info to our missiles.

A raised mug to all involved. I just hope we can translate this success to our land based portions of the ABM.

KEEP ON TRUCKIN'
Posted by Anon4021 2006-06-23 10:03||   2006-06-23 10:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Still, better idea to take it out during the initial boost phase. Easier to target, esier to hit, and still close to enemy terriroty - and as a bonus in the Nork situation, it denies them telemetry that they need to validate that the staging and guidance works well enough to be a credible threat.
Posted by Oldspook 2006-06-23 12:12||   2006-06-23 12:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Best is to take it out while its still on the pad. But other than stealth or spy sabotage, its not politically feasable.
Posted by Oldspook 2006-06-23 12:13||   2006-06-23 12:13|| Front Page Top

#11  more than 100 miles above the Pacific Ocean

Jeebus. Now that's a vicious terrier.
Posted by 6 2006-06-23 12:17||   2006-06-23 12:17|| Front Page Top

#12 Now refresh my memory. What Dems voted against this program?
Posted by Clwilli">Clwilli  2006-06-23 14:51||   2006-06-23 14:51|| Front Page Top

#13 What is the meaning of Taepo-dong in Korean?
Posted by JohnQC 2006-06-23 15:06||   2006-06-23 15:06|| Front Page Top

#14 #13 What is the meaning of Taepo-dong in Korean?

I think Taepo means small & dong means penis
Posted by classer 2006-06-23 20:51||   2006-06-23 20:51|| Front Page Top

#15 Taepo means shooting. I'm not exactly sure what the Dong modifier is, but may be without meaning. Together they may mean Shooting Star, which corresponds to the Iranian translation of Shahab (Shahab 3 = Taepo Dong 1 with koranic verses): Shooting Star or Meteor.

No Dong means Worker, i.e. the commie fetish for the working class (as long as it's not them). And no, Taepo Dong does not mean Shooting the Workers.
Posted by ed 2006-06-23 21:49||   2006-06-23 21:49|| Front Page Top

#16 As I have always said and continue to maintain; American technology simply kicks major @ss. Our country's military supremacy is a direct outcome of our constitutional system of law. I could not be more pleased that we are on our way to relative immunity from most other nations' launch capabilities.

That said, I wish our politicians could summon sufficient courage to match the puissance of our firepower. We need the collective national will to make it known to our enemies that they tread upon the very thinnest of ice (in hobnail boots on a summers' day).

Somewhere, somehow there has arisen a sense of collective guilt for our astounding success. To be sure that academia is husbanding this moral blight, but Americans in general have fallen for the "ugly American" syndrome in a big way. We need to get over that sense of shame with respect to our superpower status. We also need leadership that is willing to openly indicate just how significant our contribution is to this world's welfare and challenge those who would contradict such a statement.

In the meantime, achievements like this make me extremely proud to have spent over two decades contributing to our nation's technological prowess. It is comforting to know that the world's most free nation is just that much more secure from the harm others would do us.
Posted by Zenster 2006-06-23 22:08||   2006-06-23 22:08|| Front Page Top

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