Friday - June 26, 2009
Growl
You know what I hate? I hate when a blogger puts up a post that really, really begs private comment, and then supplies a false email address. I spent the better part of an hour doing research, running numbers, and building graphics - to scale, no less - and then put it all in an email ... that got rejected, because the account didn’t actually exist.
So here’s the picture. I won’t give the details, but they’re obvious: we are vulnerable as all hell to EMP. I have no doubts at all that the USA is the most integrated circuit intensive nation on earth. Sure, Japan may have more per person, and way cooler cell phones too, but we’re about 500 times the size of them.
And this is just about the one and only way Mr. Me So Ronery can make good his threat to destroy the US that he came out with the other day, that the Pentagon sneered at. All it takes is ONE MIRV MISSILE. Just one, with just 3 warheads. Heck, our ICBMs had 10 or more each.
60 miles up isn’t even half the altitude of Low Earth Orbit. Maybe we should nuke the NorKs on July 3rd, just to play it safe.
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Permalink • Monday - June 22, 2009
Getting Ready For The 4th of July
U.S. beefs up Hawaii’s missile defence amid warnings North Korea could fire rocket towards Pacific islands
A new anti-missile system ordered for Hawaii is partly a strategy to deter North Korea from test-firing a long-range missile across the Pacific and partly a precaution against the unpredictable regime, military officials have said.
The United States has no indication that North Korean missile technology has improved markedly since past failed launches.
Military and other assessments suggest the communist nation probably could not hit the westernmost US state if it tried, officials said.
The North’s Taepodong-2 could travel that far in theory, if it works as designed. But three test launches have either failed or do not demonstrate anything close to that range.
Nonetheless, past failure should not be considered a predictor, one military official said, and the seaborne radar and land-based interceptors were added this week as a prudent backstop.
A senior defence official would not discuss details of range estimates for North Koreans missiles, but said the same principle of caution for Hawaii would apply if the North appeared to threaten US territories in the Pacific.
Great idea. I hope they brought in quite a number of high altitude interceptor missiles as well.
Did you know we had SBX? I didn’t. And the thing has been around for years. SBX is a self-propelled seaworthy radar system, built on a semi-submersible Russian oil platform. It cost $900 million to build, and usually lives in Anchorage Alaska. However it can sail to anywhere in the Pacific, although when time is of the essence a ship carrier like the MV Blue Marlin (the same one that brought home the injured USS Cole from Yemen) can transport it much faster.
Sea-Based X-band (SBX) Radar is the tracking and discrimination radar used for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system. SBX will consist of a large X-Band half-populated radar mounted on a modified fifth-generation semi-submersible platform with Battle Management Command Control and Communications, which includes In-flight Interceptor Communication System Data Terminals and associated communications; power generation; facility floor space; and infrastructure, similar to a fixed radar installation.
The SBX provides detailed ballistic missile tracking information to the GMD system, as well as advanced target and countermeasures discrimination capability for the GMD interceptor missiles. The ability of the SBX to deploy to operating locations under its own power allows it to support actual GMD operations as well as realistic testing.
The SBX vessel, a self-propelled semi-submersible modified oil-drilling platform, was modified and payloads installed at shipyards in Brownsville and Corpus Christi, Texas. The initial sea trials took place in the Gulf of Mexico to ensure maneuverability and control of the vessel. In addition, the sea trials may include full power operation for satellite and calibration device tracking. Following the sea trials, the completed platform would transit from the Gulf of Mexico to its primary support base at Adak, Alaska. SBX performs tracking, iscrimination, and assessment of target missiles in support of missile defense tests, as well as, operation of the GMD system.
The platform is approximately 390 feet long, with a 238-foot beam, and an operations draft of approximately 75 feet. The height from water surface to the top of the radar dome is 250 feet. The deck area will be approximately 270 x 230 feet. The SBX has a displacement of 50,000 tons, and a hull weight is about 15,000 tons.
The radar antenna itself is described as being 384 square meters. It has a large number of solid-state transmit-receive modules mounted on a hexagonal flat base which can move plus-or-minus 270 degrees in azimuth and 0 to 85 degrees elevation (although software currently limits the maximum physical elevation to 80 degrees). The maximum azimuth and elevation velocities are approximately 5-8 degrees per second. In addition to the physical motion of the base, the beam can be electronically steered off bore-sight (details classified).
There are currently 22,000 modules installed on the base. Each module has one transmit-receive feed horn and one auxiliary receive feed horn for a second polarization, so there are 44,000 feedhorns. The base is roughly 2/3 populated and so there is room for installation of additional modules. The current modules are concentrated towards the center, so as to minimize grating lobes. This configuration allows it to support the very-long-range target discrimination and tracking that GMD’s midcourse segment requires. The array requires over a megawatt of power.
The radar is described by Lt. Gen Trey Obering (director of MDA) as being able to track an object the size of a baseball over San Francisco in California from the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, approximately 2,900 miles (4,700 km). The radar will guide land-based missiles from Alaska and California, as well as in-theatre assets.
The SBX is compliant with existing national and state environmental regulations and laws and will pose no threat to people or wildlife in Hawaii. It has completed many major milestones in its development, the two most recent being tracking satellites and completing sea trials. Early on Oct. 12, 2005, the radar aboard the SBX successfully tracked several orbiting satellites over a three-hour period. The radar acquired each object and maintained tracks for several minutes, demonstrating this key functionality for the first time. Achieving this milestone demonstrates the radar software is able to control thousands of individual transmit and receive modules.
That’s some amazing technology. Wi-fi the thing in to several Aegis ships, a couple land batteries, and a few missile barges ( surely we have some of them, yes? Mate up another booster stage to some of those old Sprint missiles to give them an extra 20 miles of loft and mount the works on something the size of an oil tanker. Say, about 200 per ship. That seems right. ), and we should be able to knock out ‘Lil Kim’s Limpi-Dong missile as soon as we know it’s headed our way ... and with the super computers we’ve got these days, that should be figured out when the thing is about 12 feet above it’s launch pad. Ah, if only we had Frank J’s space laser.
PS - yes I cropped the first pic, an AP photo, and didn’t give them credit. Why should I, when they stole it from the Navy and then put their logo on it? Proper photo credit goes to Journalist 2nd Class Ryan C. McGinley, who snapped the shot back in January 2006.
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Permalink • Monday - March 09, 2009
WOO-HOO … I THINK THE NORTH KOREANS MIGHT BE A TAD UPSET WITH US.
Gee, Maybe we should just apologize since we’re busy in other places.
No wait. Before we do anything or try and respond, we should check first with Europe to see what they say. Maybe they’ll be able to help since they like us now. ? Hmmm. Maybe they only like Barry. Maybe we could just send him? Hey. I like that. Lets send Barry over there to talk with them.
They so seem a bit touchy here but I wonder if they’re bluffing.
What? Me Worry?
btw ... Are you folks back home getting this story this way?
North Korea threatens full scale war if rocket is intercepted
North Korea says it will wage war on America, Japan and South Korea if any attempt is made to intercept the launch of a rocket it claims is intended to put a satellite into space.
By Richard Spencer in Beijing
Last Updated: 7:13AM GMT 09 Mar 2009It has also cut off its border and telephone links with the South in protest at military exercises by American and South Korean troops which began on Monday.
Plans for a launch were first picked up by satellite imagery, with foreign intelligence agencies saying it was a test of a long-range Taepodong-2 missile with the capacity to hit parts of the United States.
The United States said it would shoot down the missile if it headed towards its territory. Japan has suggested it might try to intercept any launch, even if the payload is a communications satellite as claimed by Pyongyang.
“If the enemies recklessly opt for intercepting our satellite, our revolutionary armed forces will launch without hesitation a just retaliatory strike operation,” the general staff of the North Korean army said in a statement on state media. It singled out the United States, Japan and South Korea as targets.
“Shooting our satellite for peaceful purposes will precisely mean a war,” it said.
The North has put its army on full alert in the face of the annual spring military joint exercises begun today by the South Koreans and Americans.
It shut the border point which allows South Koreans to visit a special industrial zone in the city of Kaesong which is funded and run by South Korean companies. The South said 726 people had been turned back.
“It is nonsensical to maintain a normal communications channel at a time when the South Korean puppets are getting frantic with the above-said war exercises, levelling guns at fellow countrymen in league with foreign forces,” the North said.
Last week it also said it could not guarantee the safety of civilian aircraft which approached North Korean airspace during the exercises, causing airlines to adjust their routes.
This threat in particular is beyond the standard fare of North Korean rhetoric. It comes after six months of political uncertainty in relations between North Korea and the West, which had been improving slightly in the wake of a deal supposed to bring an end to its nuclear weapons programme.
Most western analysts linked the uncertainty to the stroke believed to have been suffered by the North’s leader, Kim Jong-il, last August.
This weekend he emerged to cast his ballot in elections for the country’s official parliament, in which he was a candidate.
Voting was expected to be unanimous. Only one candidate’s name appeared on each ballot, and while it was theoretically possible to cross that candidate’s name off, electors had to do so in a special booth, making clear they were dissenters.
The main focus of interest during these elections was rumours that Kim’s youngest son, Kim Jong-woon, would stand.
There is as yet no clear sign of a succession to the leadership. If the rumours were confirmed, Jong-woon would be the only one of the three sons to have been appointed to any official position, a clear sign that he was being marked out.
But as yet no names of candidates other than Kim senior have been given to the outside world.
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Permalink • Saturday - January 10, 2009
No kidding
Gee, I wonder why not?
Camp Rules: The 10 Commandments
1. Do not attempt to escape. The punishment is death.
2. Never gather in groups of over three people or move around without the guard’s authorization. The punishment for unauthorized movement is death.
3. Do not steal. If one steals or possesses weapons, the punishment is death. The punishment for failure to report the theft or possession of weapons is death.
4. Obey your guards. If one rebels or hits a guard, the punishment is death.
5. If you see outsiders, or suspicious-looking people, report them immediately. The punishment for abetting in the hiding of outsiders is death.
6. Keep an eye on your fellow prisoners and report inappropriate behavior without delay. One should criticize others for inappropriate behavior, and also conduct thorough self-criticism in revolutionary ideology class.
7. Fulfill your assigned duties. The punishment for rebelling against one’s duties is death.
8. Men and women may not be together outside the workplace. The punishment for unauthorized physical contact between a man and a woman is death.
9. Admit and confess your wrongdoings. The punishment for disobedience and refusal to repent is death.
10. The punishment for violating camp laws and rules is death.
No wonder these guys get along so well with the Iranians. They’re the exact same kind of scum, only the NorKs are godless scum, which might be even worse.
Posted by Drew458
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Permalink • Monday - February 25, 2008
Don’t bet on it
CNN Editor’s note: CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour recently toured North Korea’s nuclear plant. CNN was one of only two U.S. news organizations at the facility.
YONGBYON, North Korea (CNN)—The North Koreans haven’t seen this many Americans since the Korean War, but they are pulling out all the stops.
CNN was one of only two American news organizations ever allowed to visit the main nuclear facility at Yongbyon.
For a nation President Bush labeled as part of the “axis of evil,” it was not an impressive sight: a dilapidated concrete hulk, built with few resources back in the early ‘80s.
But it did produce plutonium, enough to make a few bombs and to test-fire a nuclear weapon 18 months ago.
Today is a very different story though. North Korea shut down Yongbyon last summer under an agreement with the United States and four other nations in the nuclear disarmament negotiations. We were shown the extraordinary sight of heavy metal pipes, chopped down and laid on the ground: They had been part of a coolant loop that sent steam to the turbine generators to produce electricity. We saw the distinctive bell-shaped cooling tower, just a shell, the inner guts of the system cut out. We saw the vital nuclear fuel rods being removed and neutralized under 20 feet of water. And we even were shown the reprocessing plant where plutonium was extracted from the rods, plutonium that was used for nuclear weapons, the chief engineer admitted. Parts of the plant are now dismantled, wrapped in plastic and put into storage.
And there are American technicians from the Department of Energy on-site helping with all of this. It seems a far cry from the hostility conjured by the axis of evil.
For all of this, North Korea expected a million tons of heavy fuel oil, a lifting of sanctions and removal from the U.S. list of terrorist sponsors. This has not happened yet, so North Korea has slowed down the disabling process at Yongbyon.
CNN, the most gullible name in news. When it suits our purposes of course.
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Permalink • Sunday - July 29, 2007
“How close were we to seeing an armed nuclear conflict?”
Mangun sends us this story:
US Sinks North Korean Ship Bound for Iran
“How close were we to seeing an armed nuclear conflict?” That is the question being asked as Syrian nationals temporarily vacated Beirut, Lebanon and the Jordan Valley during mid July according to sources close to ACG-CIS. Many security and intelligence officials believe that this behavior may have been related to the US sinking of a North Korean ship approximately 100 nautical miles from the coast of Iran.
It was not immediately clear why, around July 10, 2007, the Syrian nationals, primarily engaged in construction, trades and agricultural occupations, should have vacated Lebanon without notice. The nationals were noticed to have returned to Beirut and the Jordan Valley by July 21, 2007.
I’m not familiar with this source, and cannot quickly find anything to back it up, so the BS meter is twitching.
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Permalink • Monday - July 16, 2007
North Korea Shuts Down Its Reactor
Ken McCracken over at Say Anything has a good analysis of the situation.
The North Koreans have shut down their sole nuclear reactor, located at Yongbyon. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei stated today that “our inspectors are there. They verified the shutting down of the reactor yesterday.” The 10-person team of inspectors will work for several days applying IAEA seals as the nuclear equipment cools off. The North Koreans are 3 months late in implementing their end of the Denuclearization Action Plan. According to that plan, the nuclear shutdown was to have begun within 60 days of the agreement’s date.
On paper, this is an astounding and world-historic diplomatic victory for the Bush administration, and especially for its chief architect, the indefatigable Christopher Hill. Will this turn out to be a Neville Chamberlain-esque appeasment deal gone awry? It could very well be: North Korea has a history of regarding such deals as merely printed words without meaning. They violated the terms of the much-ballyhooed 1994 Agreed Framework before the ink was even dry. North Korea was a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which they also egregiously violated. In short, a North Korean signature on an agreement means exactly nothing. Yet North Korea is in desperate straits, with no fuel, little help from China, and no friends anywhere in the world. Perhaps Kim Jong-Il really does savor normalization and trade with the rest of the world. It is a very encouraging sign.
History will tell whether this is for real, and the little commie has finally woken up, or if it is another ploy to get more time.
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Permalink • Thursday - July 20, 2006
Rocket Science
Memo To Kim Jung Mentally Ill: What’s the matter little man? Run out of Rocket Viagra™? Couldn’t keep your missile up in the air longer than ten seconds? Did your tiny little TaePoDong wilt and go limp in the Sea Of Japan? Well, let me show you how it’s done.
You see, you take a bunch of scientists, put them in a room, take the results and turn it over to Boeing and before you know it you have a real missile. One that will hold up under pressure and can penetrate anywhere with ease. And you want to talk about payload? This baby can deliver the goods and can impregnate any pissant country with up to three separate MIRV warheads.
And for real excitement each warhead can be a real nuke, not some firecracker thrown together in a Third World craphole. We’re talking NOOKULER ANNIHILATION, babe! So play with your toys, little man. Just don’t piss us off any time soon. We have thousands of these missiles and one of them might just have your name on it. Now go have a nice day. Better yet, go get laid. If you’re man enough ....
U.S. Successfully Completes Missile Test
July 20, 2006, 8:49 AM EDT
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - The Air Force successfully launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile early Thursday.
The Minuteman III dummy warheads were fired at 3:14 a.m. and traveled about 4,200 miles before hitting a water target in the Marshall Islands.
The launch was delayed by a day because of a power outage at a radar facility that handles flights in and out of Southern California. The purpose is to test the defense system’s reliability and accuracy.
Earlier this month, North Korea shook up the world by firing several missiles into the Sea of Japan, including a failed long-range missile.
The North Korean launch raised questions about the readiness of the U.S. missile defense system, which includes interceptors housed in underground silos in California and Alaska.
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Permalink • Tuesday - July 18, 2006
Meanwhile …
These are not the warships you’re looking for. Move along. Nothing to see here.
So says the US Navy. Of course the visit was planned months in advance. The logistics of deploying this much hardware requires that much lead time. It is convenient though ... and somewhat comforting to know that the carrier group is on hand in case Kim Jung Mentally Ill decides to get uppity - especially after the recent bottle rockets the NoKos fired off.
Which brings me to the crux of the matter ... if we’re constantly being tasked to be the world’s policeman then why in hell are we paying dues to the United Notions. They ought to be paying us for this crap! Instead, they make us pay more than any other country, squat on prime real estate in New York and give us a hard time.
It’s time to tell Kofi And Gang to “pony up for protection” ... and sit down and STFU when we bust the bad guys for them. Send them a bill for Saddam’s capture - which they approved. A few trillion dollars ought to do it ...
Amid Missile Issue
—SEOUL, South Korea (AP)
July 18, 2006, 4:21 AM EDT
The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise arrived in South Korea Tuesday for a routine port call, officials said, amid heightened tensions in the region over North Korea’s missile launches.
The group led by the nuclear-powered carrier USS Enterprise, and including a guided missile cruiser, attack submarine and other ships, arrived for a previously planned port call at the southeastern city of Pusan, the U.S. Navy said in a statement.
“The Norfolk, Virginia-based carrier’s deployment to the Western Pacific was planned months in advance and is not in response to any current or recent events,” the statement said. U.S. military officials would not say how long the naval strike group would be in Pusan, but local media said it would stay for four days.
The communist North fired seven missiles earlier this month, including one believed capable of reaching the U.S. The missiles plunged into the sea east of the Korean Peninsula without causing any known damage or injuries, but prompted strong international condemnation. It wasn’t clear how long the vessel will stay at the port.
It is the first time in 17 years for the Norfolk, Virginia-based Enterprise to travel to Pacific waters. The carrier’s deployment to the Asia-Pacific region is “part of a regular rotation of vessels in support of U.S. commitments to around the world,” the Navy said.
About 29,500 U.S. troops are stationed in South Korea, which remains technically at war with the communist North since the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a cease-fire, not a peace treaty.
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Permalink • Friday - July 14, 2006
Meanwhile, In Korea…
At a time of heightened tensions in the Koreas, Washington and Seoul are considering separate commands.
SEOUL — The United States and South Korea are considering disbanding their combined command and creating independent military commands, with a restructured U.S. Forces Korea focusing on air and naval power, according to USFK commander Gen. B.B. Bell.
Gotta admit, I don’t get the timing of this. With all the trouble with North Korea why would you want to add a layer of command that would just slow down response to enemy action?
Bell said that since October, the U.S. and South Korea have been studying Seoul’s request for independent operational command of its troops during wartime. Current agreements call for Bell — also commander of the Combined Forces Command and United Nations Command — to direct all combat operations.
“While no final decisions have been made, we are considering creating two independent commands — one ROK and one U.S., with U.S. forces in a supporting role, and restructured to take advantage of U.S. air and naval warfare capability,” Bell said.
It was unclear Friday whether the restructuring Bell mentioned could mean a drawdown of U.S. soldiers or an increase of Air Force or Navy personnel or equipment.
“It’s inappropriate for us to speculate on force-structure changes to basing or any other future development,” USFK spokesman Col. Franklin Childress said.
I should hope it is inappropriate. No sense in telling the North all of our plans.
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Permalink • Thursday - July 13, 2006
Deja View
Scott Stantis - The Birmingham News (AL)
China Slams Japan Over North Korea
China has criticised Japan for “pouring oil on fire” for raising the issue of a pre-emptive strike on North Korea after its missile tests, warning it could seriously disrupt international efforts to defuse the crisis.
“This practice is extremely irresponsible and incomprehensible and it will only seriously disrupt international diplomatic efforts and accelerate tensions in Northeast Asia,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in a statement.
Last week’s launch has rekindled debate in Japan over whether it should develop the capability to make pre-emptive strikes and whether these would violate its post-World War Two pacifist constitution.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe did not say Tokyo was considering a pre-emptive strike nor did he use the words “pre-emptive strike”. But he said: “I believe it is necessary to conduct study and research (on the matter).
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Permalink • Wednesday - July 12, 2006
A Minor Nuisance
Mike Thompson - The Detroit Free Press
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Permalink • Friday - July 07, 2006
Respect My Authority!
The UN is working itself up to the point where the Morons Of Turtle Bay may actually issue a strong statement. The rest of us are getting a good laugh out of Kim’s recent “fireworks”. He has promised more missiles will be launched. Cool! Kim is going to kill some more fish in the Sea Of Japan. What a joke ...
Gary Varvel - The Indianapolis Star-News
The “Dear Leader’s” Quest for Recognition
July 6, 2006
Despite worldwide protests North Korea says it wants to test more missiles. By demonstrating its military strength, Kim Jong-Il’s regime appears to want to force the United States into direct negotiations. The international community remains undecided about how it should react.
There aren’t many cars on the roads of insular North Korea these days; there isn’t enough petrol or diesel. Nevertheless, the country is aiming for the skies: After launching seven medium- and long-range missiles on July 5, the North Korean Foreign Ministry announced it would carry out further tests. “Our military will continue with missile launch drills in the future as part of efforts to strengthen its self-defense deterrent,” said a spokesman.
This statement seems to confirm the findings of South Korean secret service personnel who anticipate further short- and medium-range missile tests. Still, it seems the North Korean military is less inclined to fire any more long-range Taepodong-2 missiles.
The first test launch of the missile, which has a range of 6,700 kilometers and can carry a payload weighing up to 1,000 kilograms, ended after just 40 seconds in the Sea of Japan—a complete failure, which Pyongyang nevertheless managed to herald a “success”.
Nobody knows what is driving the “Dear Leader” towards the “provocation of the international community,” as United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described it. Presumably he wishes to show the world that he is still a force to be reckoned with, despite the dire state of the North Korean economy.
It’s possible that he is also convinced that he can force the Americans into direct negotiations through a demonstration of strength and thereby demand concessions. Kim has always considered it a great dishonor that Washington will only deal with North Korea through six-party talks based in Beijing.
The goal of the North Korean regime is not just American economic assistance but also full recognition by Washington. That doesn’t appear impossible: an increasing number of members of the US Congress are calling on the US government to take a more direct and serious line with North Korea.
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