Re: two-thousand, two-hundred, fourty-two - No WMDs - It's the 'BUSH LIED' Bl
In article <EPVDf.9069$1n4.8938@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
kavik_kang@xxxxxxxxxxx (Kavik Kang) wrote:
> What is OK? I have no idea what you are talking about. The only discussion
> taking place is about your mockingly arrogant insistance that missiles
> cannot possibly travel 4000+ miles in under 40 minutes. What "story" are
> you talking about?
Oh Missiles can travel at 4000+ miles an hour, and Venezuela intends buying
some, but non-existent missiles can go just as fast as the conspiracy theorist
that created them wants them to go, so why bother arguing with a klutz like you?
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=48006
Writing in 'The Times' of India on January 14, Charles Assisi reported that a
rather staid little story appeared on a ticker powered by Itar-Tass, a Russian
News Agency. The tone was decidedly Russian -- matter-of-fact and shorn of all
hyperbole. It reported the test launch of a ballistic missile called the Topol
RS 12 at 8:10 p.m. Moscow time. After taking off from the Kapustny Yar test
range in the Astrakhan region, it hit the intended target at Balkhash in
Kazakhstan at 8:34 -- 24 minutes later.
?The target was precisely hit,? said the report, quoting a top-ranking official
from the Russian armed forces.
In conclusion, Itar-Tass added some jargon that sounded like regulation copy
to most people tracking defense.
?The advanced Topol missile?has three cruise engines and can develop hypersonic
speed. The high thrust-to-weight ratio allows the warhead to maneuver on the
trajectory and pass through a dense air defense system.?
Assisi continues: At that time, not many defense analysts thought much of the
report. After all, Kapustny Yar, located on the banks of the Volga River, 75
miles east of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), had gone to the dogs and was
infrequently used. Whenever the base was lucky to see some action, all it
witnessed was small payloads.
But what the mainstream media missed was analyzed in great detail on Internet
discussion boards. For starters, something about the time mentioned in the
report sounded astounding. For anything to travel from Kapustny to Balkash in 24
minutes, it had to fly at a speed of three miles a second. That?s 180 miles a
minute or 10,800 miles an hour. If the reports were indeed true, the Topol RS 12
or the Topol SS 27, as it is known in military circles around the world, had to
be the fastest thing man has ever seen. And if you will for a moment excuse the
breathlessness, it also represented the pinnacle of modern missile technology.
Until this test, the fastest thing known to man was the X43 A. A hypersonic,
unmanned plane built by NASA. It flew at 10 times the speed of sound -- almost
7,200 miles per hour.
But the Topol isn?t attracting attention for its speed alone. It has got
more to do with the sheer viciousness it demonstrates. A conventional
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), once deployed, takes off on the back
of a booster.
After attaining a certain altitude, it follows a set flight path or trajectory.
When it reaches the intended target, it lets loose a set of warheads that home
in on the target with devastating accuracy. Given these dynamics, military
establishments build defense systems that can intercept an ICBM before it
strikes. Very often, the defense works.
With the Topol, these dynamics simply don?t come into play. To start with, the
damn thing can be maneuvered mid-flight. This makes it practically impossible
for any radar system in the world to figure out what trajectory it will follow.
The other thing is the kind of evasion technology built into the missile. That
makes it invulnerable to any kind of radiation and electromagnetic and physical
interference.
Then there is the question of ground-based nuclear warheads traditionally
deployed to stop ICBMs in their path. Until now, any ICBM can be taken down by
detonating a nuclear warhead from as far as 10 kilometers. The Topol doesn?t
blink an eyelid until the time a nuclear warhead gets as close as 500 meters.
But given the Topol?s remarkable speed and maneuverability, getting a warhead
that close is practically impossible.
That leaves defense establishments with only two options. Target the missile at
its most vulnerable points -- either when it is on the ground or when it is just
being deployed (also known as the boost phase). Apparently, the Russians have
gotten around that problem too. Unlike virtually every ICBM that exists on some
military base or the other, the Topol doesn?t have to be on a static base. All
it needs is the back of a truck. And trucks can be driven anywhere, anytime.
That makes it practically impossible for any country to monitor how many of
these missiles have been deployed and where.
Writes Scott Ritter, a former intelligence officer and weapons inspector in the
Soviet Union and Iraq in the Christian Science Monitor, ?The Bush
administration?s dream of a viable NMD has been rendered fantasy by the Russian
test of the SS-27 Topol-M ... to counter the SS-27 threat, the US will need to
start from scratch.?
But when you?re done marveling at the technology, sit back for a moment and
consider this.
* You thought the cold war was over ... you thought wrong!
Cold War II has just begun ... and the world just became a more dangerous place.
The Topol SS 27 is the fastest missile ever
NOTE: The United States move to deny Venezuela access to hi-tech military
equipment is forcing the Caracas government to look elsewhere for defense
ordnance and technology. In recent moves, a Pentagon veto on the sale of
non-combative transport planes from Spain to Venezuela has resulted in Venezuela
seriously entertaining proposals to purchase Russian MIG fighters as well
run-of-the-mill AK-47 guns. Chinese arms salesmen are already wooing Caracas
with deals to provide arms and equipment otherwise denied to Venezuela by myopic
mandarins Washington D.C. who see Osama bin Laden lookalikes under the beds in
every Beltway brothel.
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=48006
Alan
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