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cromat
Afghanistan100 Posts
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MoltkeWarding
5195 Posts
Today you have these 100 000-ton behemoths with enough firepower to level a country, built and maintained at a considerable proportion of a nation's public wealth, cruising impotently around the coasts of the same Asiatic despots, with only bad effects. There is something about these "joint naval exercises" which appear grotesquely out of date. Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire with 2 wooden ships. If you told them about the Nuclear Carriers of the future they may have guessed our objective to be Mars or some such distant ambition. Upon being told of their real objectives, I wager they would not be so much nonplussed about our modern ships as at our modern men. | ||
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Duban
United States548 Posts
On November 28 2010 04:49 Coraz wrote: South Korea fired into contested territory with North Korea warning them not to do so USA has to provocateur wars to make excuses to bring aircraft carriers into the region that can launch onto mainland China This is a response to the Chinese sub that fired an intercontinental ballistic missile off the coast of California 30 miles from San Diego that's my take on it That's really poorly informed on every level 1)The joint military exercises are held every year. How would we know that THIS YEAR it would become a serious issue. 2) Missiles being launched are subject to something called the coriolis effect. Basically ballistic missiles are launched high enough that the rotation of the earth effects the vapor trail and results in what looks like a corckscrew effect of the vapor trail. In the photographs this was not evident meaning the vapor trail stayed at relatively low altitudes, too low to be a ballistic missile. | ||
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vnlegend
United States1389 Posts
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Grettin
42381 Posts
On November 28 2010 05:33 vnlegend wrote: Man I hope China doesn't get involved if there's a war. I live in California. Slightly offtopic, but after watching some military parade videos of China's army, i really hope they don't get involved.. (well, if they are backing up SK, then yes of course.) | ||
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Reagalan
United States2 Posts
I'm looking at this whole situation from the standpoint of a Risk Devo or Next Gen game (WC3 mods). North Korea is the guy who starts the game, attacks other 2g/turn countries because he "needs" them and fails, then turtles on a single 2g/turn country all game, staying alive only by the graces of a stronger player. Later on when he gets bored, he starts spamming chat and landing boats on unguarded cities, dying to get recognized or respected as anything more than a pest. Best way to get rid of him is a couple Battleship-SS. | ||
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Shigy
United States346 Posts
On November 28 2010 04:36 Blanke wrote: That Vladivostok story Starfox posted is the one crucial detail separating this encounter from the innumerable ones prior to it, most of which did in fact end with a few bajillion tons of rice being delivered. it's interesting, but not really firm evidence that war is around the corner. i'd suspect that if there were tens of thousands of workers in the soviet union during NK/SK skirmishes, that in light of potential military conflict - these workers would have been withdrawn to NK the same way. | ||
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Shigy
United States346 Posts
On November 28 2010 04:49 Coraz wrote:This is a response to the Chinese sub that fired an intercontinental ballistic missile off the coast of California 30 miles from San Diego you shittin me? lol | ||
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Grettin
42381 Posts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11855162 no, not the war but the naval drill. | ||
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Darpa
Canada4413 Posts
On November 28 2010 09:38 Grettin wrote: It has started.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11855162 no, not the war but the naval drill. LoL the article says "Sorth" Korea. Scary though | ||
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Shigy
United States346 Posts
On November 28 2010 09:43 Darpa wrote: LoL the article says "Sorth" Korea. Scary though lul sweet typo, bbc has got sick engrish. hopefully these events will lead to peaceful diplomacy | ||
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imperfect
Canada1652 Posts
On November 28 2010 09:38 Grettin wrote: It has started.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11855162 no, not the war but the naval drill. shit i read the first sentence and my heart dropped. whew...... anyway, hopefully it goes by without any further incidents.. my guess was NK's main aim with this whole fiasco was due to the change of power in the country, not because Kim Jong Il wants to go out with a bang. And it makes sense that NK would not want a war too since it basically equates to the country's collapse. | ||
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Grettin
42381 Posts
N. Korea deploys SA-2 surface-to-air missiles near Yellow Sea border Like this: ![[image loading]](http://www.scaleworkshop.com/gallery/images/sa2cw_10.jpg) http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2010/11/28/0200000000AEN20101128000700315.HTML | ||
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Shura
France54 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has deployed SA-2 surface-to-air missiles to its west coast near the Yellow Sea border with South Korea as U.S.-led naval drills got underway in a show of force against the North's deadly artillery attack on a South Korean island earlier last week, government sources said Sunday. "(The missiles) appear to be targeting our fighter jets that fly near the Northern Limit Line (NLL)," the source said on customary condition of anonymity, referring to the Yellow Sea border. http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2010/11/28/0200000000AEN20101128000700315.HTML It will be a really close call ... | ||
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Teraldent
United States89 Posts
On November 28 2010 10:37 Shura wrote: "N. Korea deploys SA-2 surface-to-air missiles near Yellow Sea border" + Show Spoiler + SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has deployed SA-2 surface-to-air missiles to its west coast near the Yellow Sea border with South Korea as U.S.-led naval drills got underway in a show of force against the North's deadly artillery attack on a South Korean island earlier last week, government sources said Sunday. "(The missiles) appear to be targeting our fighter jets that fly near the Northern Limit Line (NLL)," the source said on customary condition of anonymity, referring to the Yellow Sea border. http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2010/11/28/0200000000AEN20101128000700315.HTML It will be a really close call ... wow things are really starting to get heated | ||
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moochu
Australia374 Posts
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night terrors
China1284 Posts
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john6464
Belize20 Posts
Source: The Telegraph UK | ||
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AttackZerg
United States7454 Posts
North Korea as well as China , both know that with just the current US Forces, it would take less then 25 minutes to completely level the entire western Chinese coast AND North Korean. My stupid country is literally silently checkmating not just N.korea but also china. This situation is far more dangerous for china then anybody else. Quote me on this "S.korea is 100% safe" | ||
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Grettin
42381 Posts
On November 28 2010 10:55 moochu wrote: Any idea how dangerous these surface to air missles are? Happy reading and watching. They are pretty dangerous, as missiles usually are.. | ||
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