Stalins Organ Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 And here's a shot of the same with the carrying ship at full draught........ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 Uh-huh. Maybe there's a thing or two you forgot to mention though... Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Soooo embarrassing A US missile defence test designed to shoot down long-range missiles was aborted when the radar system failed. Rick Lehner, a Missile Defense Agency spokesman, said the target missile represented the type of technology that North Korea or Iran might develop. The target was launched from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific and the interceptor missile from California. The Pentagon said those two components performed as expected, but the sea-based X-band radar system failed. The system has been under development for many years at the cost of tens of billions of dollars, and the Pentagon will be embarrassed by the failure, says the BBC security correspondent Nick Childs. and as for this, they need a word like hubris : ) 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. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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