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Observations of a Missile Launch – I

Much discussion and analysis (or what some try to pass off as analysis) in the ‘verse.  Many, most in fact, are focused on the specifics of the failure and potential threat to the US.  But there is more to this than meets the (media) eye, so let’s break it down here.  We’ll break this into [...] [...]

Maritime Strategy

Missile Defense – It’s Not Just for ICBMs

It began in 2001.  Crude, homemade and unguided.  Indiscriminate as to objective or target – not meant to do anything but inspire terror.  It has a name – صاروخ القسام‎ Ṣārūkh al-Qassām; Comprised of a  simple steel rocket filled with explosives, powered by a homebrew mixture of sugar and potassium nitrate (fertilizer) with warheads made [...] [...]

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Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV) Completes Hover Test

MULTIPLE KILL VEHICLE COMPLETES HOVER TEST, Dec. 3, 2008. Missile Defense Agency Director Lieutenant General Patrick O’Reilly announced that a test of the Multiple Kill Vehicle-L (MKV-L) was conducted Tuesday, Dec. 2 at the National Hover Test Facility at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.  Preliminary indications are that planned test objectives were achieved. Objectives of [...] [...]

history lessons

More Cold War Secrets Revealed

The latest revelation of well known public research facilities with a hidden Cold War mission comes from the merry ol’ – England’s Jodrell Bank telescope, to wit: London, Nov 23 (ANI): The creator of the giant space telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in the UK has disclosed after 50 years that the telescope was [...] [...]

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“To Provide for the Common Defense…”

“So when all else fails, when all the negotiations have broken down, when there is a missile in the air, you have to have the ability to destroy it.  Because the only other ability you would have is to apologize to the relatives of those who died.” — — [...]