TONIGHT the US Navy is going to shoot down that spy satellite

[mitchedwards]

The pentagon just released the video.

Best I could find are these stills



Just found the video link

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

[Mikey]

Thanks Mitch !!!

It sure did blow up real good !!!



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[Adam West]

>I have heard that we do have the capability right now to destroy every nuclear missle that could pose a threat to hitting the U.S.

Never believe your own hype.... Even if you could hit an incoming missile, debris is gonna land SOMEWHERE. Thats' why Canada wasn't too thrilled with the "Star Wars" system when first proposed: in a global thermonuclear exchange between the US and Russia them missiles would have come over the north pole. (shortest route) When shot down the debris would have fallen about half way.

*sigh*

Don C.

Hmmm. I guess it depends on what part of the U.S. would be the target. If it were the West Coast, wouldn't a missle launch from the Eastern border of Russia hit the West Coast faster than sending it over the North Pole?

I'm also pretty sure nuclear missles can be dismantled without causing detonation to the nuclear warhead itself. Our own defense missles would not originate from somewhere in the U.S. but in places scatterd across the Earth and possibly in the sky.

I'm not saying that anything exists right now but I do remember a few years ago a lot of countries were crying foul when they learned that we were building a nuclear defense system so there has to be some credence that something either exists or is close to existence.

Regardless of this particular issue which wasn't the main point of the thread, I did think it was pretty darn cool that we were able to destroy a satellite in space with a single missle and basically have it destroyed in about a minute from the time the missle was fired.

[jds1911a1]

Hmmm. I guess it depends on what part of the U.S. would be the target. If it were the West Coast, wouldn't a missle launch from the Eastern border of Russia hit the West Coast faster than sending it over the North Pole?

I'm also pretty sure nuclear missles can be dismantled without causing detonation to the nuclear warhead itself. Our own defense missles would not originate from somewhere in the U.S. but in places scatterd across the Earth and possibly in the sky.

I'm not saying that anything exists right now but I do remember a few years ago a lot of countries were crying foul when they learned that we were building a nuclear defense system so there has to be some credence that something either exists or is close to existence.

Regardless of this particular issue which wasn't the main point of the thread, I did think it was pretty darn cool that we were able to destroy a satellite in space with a single missle and basically have it destroyed in about a minute from the time the missle was fired.

I wasn't a missleman in the service so I can't be certain but I beleive the earth rotation makes shots over the north pole easier for ICBM's (also remember most missile silo are in the center of the countries in question

DISMANTLE yes but a shoot down will have debris somewhere (which is why they wanted to shoot this satelite down over the sea) and before it got into the atmosphere so the fuel would burn up "out there somewhere beyond the heavens"

As a former cold warrior SDI scared me. It made the whole MAD (Mutually Assured Distruction) strategy a little too "safe" for people who supported it.

Of course at least in 86 I knew who the enemy was

[palitoy]

I've seen and read too many bad sci fi premises, I watch this story and keep expecting Rodan to appear any time now.

[ctc]

>If it were the West Coast, wouldn't a missle launch from the Eastern border of Russia hit the West Coast faster than sending it over the North Pole?

On the coats they'd use subs instead of icbm's.

>I'm also pretty sure nuclear missles can be dismantled without causing detonation to the nuclear warhead itself.

Depends at which point it arms. Soviet ones armed just before impact as I recall. They used MIRVs: multi warheads. At 30,000 feet or so they'd burst into hundreds of tinier nukes and blanket a wide area; and I think it's at that point they armed. So you can probably tag 'em before they arm; but you're still left with a lot of radioactive debris slammong into the ground at mach 15. (Nowadays we'd call that a "dirty bomb.")

>Our own defense missles would not originate from somewhere in the U.S. but in places scatterd across the Earth and possibly in the sky.

At one point they wanted to use orbital particle beams to shoot them down. Took way too much power, and if the missile stayed in the atmosphere the beam skimmed off of it. Then they wanted orbiting missile-pod satelites.

>I did think it was pretty darn cool that we were able to destroy a satellite in space with a single missle

Moreso when you do the math. They managed to hit an object the size of a minivan travelling at around 13,000 mph with a solid metal football. And they did it first shot.

'Course, I'm curious where the parts are gonna land.... INCLUDING that hazardous fuel. Would it be consumed in the explosion? Will it burn up on re-entry? Will it diffuse into the atmosphere and cause the dead to rise from their graves and feast on the living? Last I saw it was gonna take 24 hours for them to identify and track the wreckage.

Don C.

[Mikey]

CNN makes it sound like all the remnants (football size) is going to burn up in re-entry...
The fuel itself was just dissipated in the atmosphere when it exploded..

[mitchedwards]

Yep, nothing left to do any damage. Like the Simpons episode with the comet. Noting bigger than a chihuahuas skull

The next get of missile kill vehicles will be laser based on 737 Should be able to hit the object before it enters the atsmophere

[BlackKnight]

I was hoping for a bit more... When I hear the term,.. "Blown up" .. I think of the re-mastered Star Wars Episode 4,.. when they blew-up the Death Star,.. I was seriously hoping for Graphics... However it's cool,.. was kinda neat.

& For the record,.. I personally don't need any Missiles,.. or debree or any objects entering anywhere over my head in the WestCoast. It's bad enough, there is alot of people over here with thier Pilot licence,.. & I live rather close to a airfeild,, like 5 minutes, & are always in the news for crashing.

[Adam West]

I'm sure there is classified footage that gives a very clear picture of what happened.

As was already stated, the news reported that the explosion was pretty intense so they think they hit the fuel tank which would have theoretically caused all of the toxic chemicals to disperse in space. Most of the debris should fry as it reenters the Earth's atmosphere. Again, this is all speculation which is why they are monitoring the situation closely.