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Defense News: Another US Navy ballistic missile intercept reportedly fails in Hawaii
WASHINGTON — A test shoot of the SM-3 Block IIA fired from an Aegis Ashore test site in Hawaii failed Wednesday, CNN has reported. The missile is designed to intercept ballistic missiles.
If confirmed, it would mark the second unsuccessful test of the Raytheon missile in the past year. It also deals a setback to U.S. missile defense efforts as North Korea makes seemingly daily progress on it goal of striking the U.S. mainland with nuclear-armed missiles.
When reached for comment, U.S. Missile Defense Agency spokesman Mark Wright declined to comment on the outcome of the test.
“The Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy sailors manning the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex (AAMDTC) conducted a live-fire missile flight test using a Standard-Missile (SM)-3 Block IIA missile launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, Wednesday morning,” Wright said.
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The danger is that as the u.s does not have a silver bullet for dealing with a icbm the chance of a war of to remove the threat becomes ever more likely and actually necessary.
ReplyDeleteLOL. If we're gonna have a war, please let Kim drop the big one on the 18th green at Mar a lago. MAGA! Rubes!
ReplyDeleteIf the Norks use their nukes, they will use them defensively,
DeleteA) if they have not solved the re-entry problem, then they will stick to their shorter range ballistic missiles, and use their 8-10 nukes on the US "Bridgehead" in South Korea, US bases in Okinawa, Japan and Guam, with a few held back for the US "Inchon" follow up.
B) if they have solved their re-entry problem, then they will try to "target spread" all their nukes on the east side of the US Rockies, counting on the fallout causing maximim and long term damage.
Anon,
ReplyDeleteShame on you. The test is neither Republican nor Democrat, it's American. Laughing about the security of ALL Americans is very low class thinking. I'm very sorry for you.
Jay,
ReplyDeleteYou are right. I cannot imagine NoKo "aggression" on America. Kim Jun Un who want to keep his power cannot be at the same time suicidal.
Still the desire for "reunification" of Korea cannot be ignored. But that's only about the will of America to stay in SoKo.
If the US had held to the Yalta Agreement, Korea would have been unified under a Kim Government, with a Rhee Minority, in 1945,
DeleteVietnam would have been unified under a Mihn Government, with a Soo Minority as well.
The Korea's will be unified, when they have common cause, and more and more, that common cause appears to be Trump,
but having fought for over 45 years to seize democracy from US Military Dictator's, the South Korean's arn't going to give up their hard won democracy and economy up to a Kim Regime,
and having lost 70% of their population, and all their infrastructure to US saturation bombing, the NORK's arn't going to give up their defences, to vague US assurances.
It's up to the Korea's to solve their issues, and one of the big road blocks, is not NORK Nukes, but instead the Pentagon's Command and Control over the South Korean military.
South Korea has control over its military. While, in theory, South Korea might be expected on paper to cede control in a hot war situation, in substance this won't happen and the Americans would not demand nor could we if we wanted to which we would not. The South Koreans will continue to control their American puppet until such time as the American people and our leaders can find the confidence to break free from this one sided and often abusive relationship. Until such time the US will continue slavishly serving its South Korean masters as it has for decades.
ReplyDeleteBase betrayal of us by South Korea is a huge risk. Any final solution of this conflict has to involve a pathway whereby the US finally gets to withdraw its forces from South Korea once and for all. The forces are needed elsewhere and doing so has a chance to strengthen the alliance.