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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 105970 Melbourne Gender:	Re: North Korea to nuke the Yanks Reply #75 - Mar 28^th, 2013 at 8:02pm The B2 Stealth Bomber:
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Reply #76 - Mar 28^th, 2013 at 8:03pm

Bobby. wrote on Mar 28^th, 2013 at 7:51pm:

Latest news

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/28/world/asia/korea-us-b2-flights/index.html?hpt=...

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U.S. says it sent B-2 stealth bombers over South Korea.

CNN) -- The United States said Thursday it sent stealth bombers to South Korea to participate in annual military exercises amid spiking tensions with North Korea.

The B-2 Spirit bombers flew more than 6,500 miles from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to South Korea, dropping inert munitions there as part of the exercises, before returning to the U.S. mainland, the U.S Forces in Korea said in a statement.

The mission by the planes, which can carry both conventional and nuclear weapons, "demonstrates the United States' ability to conduct long range, precision strikes quickly and at will," the statement said.

Are we doomed?
Is this the End Times?

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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 105970 Melbourne Gender:	Re: North Korea to nuke the Yanks Reply #77 - Mar 28^th, 2013 at 8:05pm Another B2 pic:
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Reply #78 - Mar 28^th, 2013 at 10:15pm

Update:

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/28/world/asia/korea-us-b2-flights/index.html?hpt=...

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The B-2 Spirit bombers flew more than 6,500 miles from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to South Korea, dropping inert munitions there as part of the exercises, before returning to the U.S. mainland, the U.S Forces in Korea said in a statement.

The mission by the planes, which can carry both conventional and nuclear weapons, "demonstrates the United States' ability to conduct long range, precision strikes quickly and at will," the statement said.

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Reply #79 - Mar 28^th, 2013 at 11:23pm

Chard wrote on Mar 14^th, 2013 at 12:37am:

I've said no such thing. In fact I've made it clear that we track pretty much everything because we have the ability to do so, not because of an imaginary threat that you made up. Let's be clear on that, this entire aside on DPRK subs with nucleat mines is entirely a figment of your imaginate and not an actual capability of the North Korean military.

to bobbythebat:

One big advantage of following them is you can gather information on their military hardware with your sensors so you know what they look like and sound like on radar, on sonar, when they're tracking you and when they're about to fire a weapon, etc. You also know what weapons they have. You're constantly observing them ....... for free

Bobby. wrote on Mar 17^th, 2013 at 9:30am:

Chard - you're a doubting Thomas.

The Yanks are leaving nothing to chance.
They are improving their missile defence & watching the subs & ships very closely.

A secret war is going on all the time & we are just not privy to it.
The specifications & capabilities of Yankee satellities are top secret.
We will never know the truth in our lifetimes so all we have is internet speculation.
Yes - I am guilty of this.

I thought Chard was a Yank, and that he also had experience in the U.S. military, so the question is who you think you're talking to.

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Chard Gold Member Offline Mein Führer! I can walk! Posts: 1077 Alabama, USA Gender:	Re: North Korea to nuke the Yanks Reply #80 - Mar 29^th, 2013 at 6:35am To be specific I've been employed by the US DoD and/or the aerospace industry for seventeen years now, the last decade of which ivve worked on air defense and missile defense projects. There's a reason why whenever Bobbo there posts I wonder if there really is a dick growing out of his forhead.
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Chard Gold Member Offline Mein Führer! I can walk! Posts: 1077 Alabama, USA Gender:	Re: North Korea to nuke the Yanks Reply #81 - Mar 29^th, 2013 at 6:55am Double post removed
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Reply #82 - Mar 29^th, 2013 at 6:59am

If the DPRK really is planning on a nuclear first strike then they've got a really odd way of showing it.

Xinhua by way of Shanghai Daily.com

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S. Korean workers get nod to enter DPRK's industrial complex

Source: Xinhua | 2013-3-28 | ONLINE EDITION

SOUTH Korean workers commuting to the Kaesong Industrial Complex today got a nod from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to enter the inter- Korean industrial zone even after the cut-off of military communications hotline between the two countries in the prior day.

The Ministry of Unification said by phone that 161 South Korean commuters to Kaesong crossed the land border and entered the industrial complex without a hitch as of 8:30am. A total of 530 South Koreans are scheduled to go to the complex today, while 511 workers are slated to return to Seoul.

"The north side (DPRK) gave the daily approval on the cross- border movement through the Kaesong Industrial Complex Management Committee by phone," Yonhap News Agency quoted an official at the Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) office as saying.

The approval came a day after the DPRK severed its military hotline with the South in protest against the military drills between Seoul and Washington. The communist nation cut off the inter-Korean Red Cross hotline around two weeks ago.

The joint industrial park in the DPRK border town of Kaesong was launched in 2004, housing around 120 South Korean companies that employ some 50,000 DPRK workers. The factory zone has been believed to be one of the DPRK's main hard currency income sources.

Ok, for those of you that don't know any better, when you plan to go to war with someone and cut diplomatic communications as part of your geopolitical temper tantrum, if you're actually serious about it then allowing several hundred foreigners across your boarder is the last thing you would want to do. Like I keep saying, this entire situation is about Kim Jong Un trying to prove he's a tough guy like his daddy and all of his statements about going to war with anyone is a huge bluff. To bad for Kim's fatass he's trying to play poker with a nation that has a pokerface good enough to sucker Russians.

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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 105970 Melbourne Gender:	Re: North Korea to nuke the Yanks Reply #83 - Mar 29^th, 2013 at 11:19am You're an idiot Chard, the Notrh Koreans will nuke Guam & Pearl harbour - then what will you say?
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Reply #84 - Mar 29^th, 2013 at 11:24am

Update on the crisis:

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/28/world/asia/north-korea-us-threats/index.html?h...

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North Korea's leader has approved a plan to prepare rockets to be on standby for firing at U.S. targets, including the U.S. mainland and military bases in the Pacific and in South Korea, state media reported.

In a meeting with military leaders early Friday, Kim Jong Un "said he has judged the time has come to settle accounts with the U.S. imperialists in view of the prevailing situation," the state-run KCNA news agency reported.

"If they make a reckless provocation with huge strategic forces, [we] should mercilessly strike the U.S. mainland, their stronghold, their military bases in the operational theaters in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Guam, and those in South Korea," KCNA reported.

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Reply #85 - Mar 29^th, 2013 at 1:18pm

Bobby. wrote on Mar 29^th, 2013 at 11:19am:

You're an idiot Chard,
the Notrh Koreans will nuke Guam & Pearl harbour -
then what will you say?

Yeah, good luck getting a handful of ballistic RVs past all the SM3 equiped warships around either location or the THAAD battery deployed to Hawaii.

As to what our response might be? Lets just say you really wouldn't want to be down wind.

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Life_goes_on Gold Member Offline Posts: 4772 400kms south of Yobsville, Qld Gender:	Re: North Korea to nuke the Yanks Reply #86 - Mar 29^th, 2013 at 2:27pm Crisis? what crisis? North Korea being dicks again... all talk, no action, just like every time since the Korean War ended. The chances of them even throwing just a rock at the Yanks is near zero. As usual... a storm in a teacup on a slow news day.
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Reply #87 - Mar 29^th, 2013 at 3:27pm

Bobby. wrote on Mar 29^th, 2013 at 11:19am:

You're an idiot Chard,
the Notrh Koreans will nuke Guam & Pearl harbour -
then what will you say?

I know Chad is not an idiot, I also know I am not an idiot so that leaves you, Nails, Wiseone, Miss Borg, the light and Corporate Whitey to fight for the gong.

May the best lunatic win.

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Reply #88 - Mar 29^th, 2013 at 3:56pm

For those that don't know, SM-3 is a new varient of the USN's Standard Missile family. The USN looked at the ABM mission and noticed the Aegis system and SPY-1 radar were perfectly capable of handling exo-atmospheric engagements, they just needed a missile with the range and altitude needed. Enter the SM-3 with a 500km range and 150km altitude ceiling, accurate enough to perform kinetic hit-to-kill intercepts of ballistic RVs and low hanging satellite.

Where ever you find a USN destroyer or cruiser there's half a dozen or more SM-3s in the VLS cells. At any given time there's six or more Arleigh Burke-class DDGs around the vicinity of Perle, same for Guam, Japan, and South Korea. Between SM-3 and land-based ABM systems like THAAD and PAC-3 we have more ABM capability around the Pacific than North Korea has ballistic missles.

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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 105970 Melbourne Gender:	Re: North Korea to nuke the Yanks Reply #89 - Mar 29^th, 2013 at 4:05pm Dear Chard, as I have implied - Guam & Pearl Harbour should fear North Korean Subs & ships more than their missiles. I find your lack of imagination disturbing. you are forgiven namaste
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