Thursday, August 21, 2008

Loose Lips Can Sink Ships (Hat Tip To Instapundit)


Spy Sat Sharpshooter Apparently Now On The Front Lines

Very interesting news on that spectacular Iranian satellite launch failure:

Iran's flight test of a space launch vehicle failed Aug. 17, according to radar tracking by a U.S. Navy destroyer and infrared data from U.S. Air Force Defense Support Program (DSP) missile warning spacecraft.

Key data on the failure were provided by the USS Russell, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer patrolling the Persian Gulf.

Other U.S. intelligence assets gave the Russell and missile warning satellite system advanced notice of the test, enabling extra preparation for tracking its outcome.

The Russell also was one of three destroyers involved in the final radar tracking of the derelict National Reconnaissance Office USA 193 intelligence satellite that was destroyed by a Standard Missile-3 fired by another destroyer in the Persian Gulf group.

Read more ....

My Comment: We no longer have secrets. When a person like me gets to know which U.S. Navy assets do what .... you know we are in trouble.

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