Sunday Fun Video: North Korea's Failed Missile Launch

Heh.

#northKorea missile launch footage pic.twitter.com/zuk4UjuBV1

— Will Brown (@willbrownsydney) April 15, 2017

Strange: U.S. Hellfire missile shipped to Cuba...

Incompetence or espionage?

Via WSJ:

An inert U.S. Hellfire missile sent to Europe for training purposes was wrongly shipped from there to Cuba in 2014, said people familiar with the matter, a loss of sensitive military technology that ranks among the worst-known incidents of its kind.
The unintended delivery of the missile to Cuba has confounded investigators and experts who work in a regulatory system designed to prevent precisely such equipment from falling into the wrong hands, said those familiar with the matter.
For more than a year, amid a historic thawing of relations between the U.S. and Cuba, American authorities have tried to get the Cuban government to return the missile, said people familiar with the matter. At the same time, federal investigators have been tracing the paper trail of the wayward Hellfire to determine if its arrival in Cuba was the work of criminals or spies, or the result of a series of blunders, these people said.

Israel tests missile that can intercept objects in space...

Watch Israel test high- tech missiles, which can target and destroy missiles in space https://t.co/GhJsBX4Vbg pic.twitter.com/WoEDUeaEmm

— CNN (@CNN) December 13, 2015

Surprise! Iran has an underground missile base.

Wonderful...

Via AP:

Iranian state television broadcast unprecedented footage Wednesday of a deep underground tunnel packed with missiles and launcher units, which officials said could be used if “enemies make a mistake”.
The pictures were released just three days after Iran tested a new long-range missile that the United States said may have breached a UN Security Council resolution.
The footage also came a day after Iran’s parliament approved the country’s July 14 nuclear deal with six world powers.
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Maybe those Russian S-300 Missiles aren't so fearsome after all...

Fail launch...

Malaysian airline shoot down causes Obama to leave golf course for a photo op

 I thought Obama wasn't interested in photo ops?

.@WhiteHouse releases photo of Obama's call to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Tune into FNC for #MH17 coverage pic.twitter.com/6PFp4qDsdk
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 17, 2014

Japan plans to shoot down next North Korean ballistic missile?

War drums...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has ordered a destroyer in the Sea of Japan to strike any ballistic missiles that may be launched by North Korea in the coming weeks after Pyongyang fired a Rodong medium-range missile over the sea, a government source said on Saturday.
Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera issued the order on Thursday, but did not make it public in order to avoid putting a chill on renewed talks between Tokyo and Pyongyang, the first in more than a year, local media reported earlier.
"The defense minister made the order from April 3rd through to the 25th to prepare for any additional missile launches," the source said.
Onodera, the source said, did not deploy Patriot missile batteries that would be the last line of defense against incoming warheads.
Media reports said the North Korean-Japanese talks in Beijing this week broke no new ground, but ended with an agreement for further meetings.

Report: Saudi Arabia sending European-made Mistral-class MANPADS to Syria...

What could possibly go wrong? 

(AFP) - Saudi Arabia plans to supply the Syrian opposition with anti-aircraft missiles to counter President Bashar al-Assad’s air force, German news weekly Der Spiegel reported Sunday.

The article, citing a classified report received by the German foreign intelligence service and the German government last week, said Riyadh was looking at sending European-made Mistral-class MANPADS, or man-portable air-defence systems.

Der Spiegel noted the shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles can target low-flying aircraft including helicopters and had given mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan a decisive edge against Soviet troops in the 1980s.

Saudi Arabia is a key supporter of the Syrian rebels and has long advocated providing them with better weaponry.

Attention desperate North Korea moves two more missile launchers to the coast...

If these losers didn't have nukes, there actions would be amusing...

N. Korea moves two more missile launchers: report

SEOUL — North Korea has moved two more missile launchers to its east coast, where preparations are apparently under way for a missile test as tensions simmer on the peninsula, a report said.

Expectations had been high that Pyongyang would carry out a test to coincide with celebrations marking the birth of North Korea's late founding leader Kim Il-Sung on April 15 but it did not materialise.

The North Korean military last week moved two launchers believed to be for Scud missiles to the northeast province of South Hamgyong, Yonhap news agency said, citing a senior Seoul official.

"We have discovered the North has moved two additional TELs (transporter erector launchers) to the east coast... after April 16," the official was quoted as saying, adding Seoul and Washington were closely monitoring the site.

BTW, did Kim Jung Un ever come out of hiding?  Before the Boston Marathon terrorist attack, he had been missing from public for over two weeks.

Scary: DIA thinks North Korea can mount a nuke on a missile...

Let's hope and pray this assessment is wrong...

Via Daily Beast:

North Korea likely has nuclear weapons that can be delivered by ballistic weapons, according to a classified report by the Defense Intelligence Agency. The assessment comes amid escalating rhetoric by Kim Jong-un threatening nuclear strikes on the United States. It’s the clearest statement yet that the boy leader poses a legitimate and imminent nuclear threat.

According to the report, “DIA assesses with moderate confidence the North currently has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles however the reliability will be low.” That line was read aloud by Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Republican from Colorado, on Thursday during a House Armed Services Committee hearing. Lamborn was questioning Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who seemed taken aback and declined to answer the question, saying, “I haven’t seen it and you said it’s not publicly released, so I choose not to comment on it.”

The conclusion from the DIA plays into a larger debate within the U.S. intelligence community about North Korea’s ability to launch a nuclear missile. While North Korea has conducted three underground nuclear tests since 2006, the U.S. has been divided for years on whether the country’s engineers can place a nuclear warhead atop a ballistic missile. The DIA report now shows that the military’s most important intelligence agency believes, albeit with “moderate confidence,” that North Korea has mastered the technology.

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War Preparations: U.S. moves advanced missile defense system to Guam...

 Pyongyang has "ratified" a possible nuclear strike on the U.S, whatever that means.

Via BBC:

The US has announced it is moving an advanced missile defence system to the Pacific island of Guam as North Korea steps up its warlike rhetoric.

The latest statement from Pyongyang "formally informs" the Pentagon it has "ratified" a possible nuclear strike.

North Korea has threatened to target the US and South Korea in recent weeks.

Its latest statement came amid warnings from US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel that North Korea is a "real and clear danger" to the US and its allies.

The US Department of Defense said on Wednesday it would deploy the ballistic Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System (Thaad) in the coming weeks.

The Thaad system includes a truck-mounted launcher, interceptor missiles, and AN/TPY-2 tracking radar, together with an integrated fire control system.

Strange: Kim Jong-un wants to missile strike Austin, Texas?

 Austin, Texas?

The Telegraph reported:

North Korea has revealed its plans to strike targets in Hawaii and the continental United States in photos taken in Kim Jong-un’s military command centre.

The photos appeared in the state-run Rodong newspaper and were apparently taken at an “emergency meeting” early on Friday morning. They show Kim signing the order for North Korea’s strategic rocket forces to be on standby to fire at US targets, the paper said, with large-scale maps and diagrams in the background.

The images show a chart marked “US mainland strike plan” and missile trajectories that the NK News web site estimates terminate in Hawaii, Washington DC, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas.

The meeting of the Pyongyang’s senior military leaders was called after two US B2 bombers, flying out of bases in Missouri, carried out simulated bombing raids on North Korean targets on an island off the coast of South Korea.

Build up to WW3 - NORTH KOREA Ready to ATTACK the U.S. Will They Really ST

Flexibility: Obama cancels final phase of a Europe-based missile defense system

Vladimir Putin and Russians are most happy about this decision...

Via NY Times:

MOSCOW — The United States has effectively canceled the final phase of a Europe-based missile defense system that was fiercely opposed by Russia and cited repeatedly by the Kremlin as a major obstacle to cooperation on nuclear arms reductions and other issues.

Russian officials here have so far declined to comment on the announcement, which was made in Washington on Friday by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel as part of a plan to deploy additional ballistic missile interceptors to counter North Korea. The cancellation of some European-based defenses will allow resources to be shifted to protect against North Korea. 

Aides to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said there would be no reaction until early next week, when they expect to be briefed by American officials.
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You may remember Obama told Dmitry Medvedev, in a 'hot mic' moment, he would be more flexible after the election...

Game Changer? Is Iran Supplying Hamas With Sophisticated Russian Anti-Tank Missiles?

The main Hamas weapon has been “Grad rockets, Now, the Iron Dome” missile defense system  has rendered Hamas’ Grad rockets almost useless against civilian targets. Recently, Hamas used a Russian-made laser guided anti0tank missile on an Israeli bus.

Liberal Fail: Rachel Maddow Claims SDI Can't Work Because Missiles Can't Shoot Missiles Out of the Sky

Rachel Maddow shows her ignorance and claims SDI can't work because missiles can not shoot down missiles.



The U.S. Navy strongly disagrees.

The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) successfully shot down a short-range ballistic missile in space in a July 30 test, agency officials announced Friday.

The Navy's USS Hopper and USS O'Kane destroyers detected and tracked a missile fired from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands, Kauai in Hawaii during the test, which was latest demonstration of the U.S. military's Aegis Missile Defense system.

And if we don't want to use missiles, there are always lasers.

Video: Laser Jet Blasts Ballistic Missile in Landmark Test

The “Allahu Akbar” Iran Missile Test ( Raw Video)

This is disturbing. Iran is getting ready to fire up their first nuclear reactor and they are test firing missiles to shouts of “Allahu Akbar.” Meanwhile, President Obama is on vacation again.

China Joins the "Axis of Evil"

Four months after Sept. 11, former President George Bush identified Iran, Iraq and North Korea as the "Axis of Evil" in his 2002 "State of the Union" address and made defanging them America's top national security priority. Sadly, he came up only one for three on this quest. The other two rogue regimes are still going strong. Now, China has, reportedly, decided to join Iran and North Korea in a strategic alliance that focuses on missile and nuclear development. The "Axis of Evil" triad has been restored.

World Tribune reported:

TEL AVIV — China, Iran and North Korea have established a strategic alliance that focuses on missile and nuclear development, according to a new report.

The report said that Beijing, Pyongyang and Teheran were helping each other in missile and nuclear programs. The report, titled “China, Iran and North Korea: A Triangular Strategic Alliance...

The US Sold us out

Poland was very offended at the scrapping of the missile defense in Europe. The Polish Prime minister refused to take Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's phone call:

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirmed today that he declined last night to take a call from the U.S. informing him of the decision to scrap planned missile-defense bases in his country.

Two U.S.-based sources close to the Polish government said Thursday that Tusk also rejected a call from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — on the grounds that, as the head of the government, he should speak to the president.

"Hillary called — and the reason he turned it down was because of protocol," said a source.

The headline from Polish tabloid eFact.pl:

Treason! Russia, the U.S. sold us.

Vladimir Putin was happy about the decision:

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday a decision by the United States to scrap plans for a missile defense shield in Europe was positive.

Putin, speaking to investors in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, said he now expected the United States to back a bid by Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan to join the World Trade Organisation.

"I expect that after this correct and brave decision, others will follow, including the complete removal of all restrictions on the transfer of high technology to Russia and activity to widen the membership of the World Trade Organisation to (include) Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus," Putin said.

Did Obama cancel the European missile defense on Joe Biden's advice?

VP Joe Biden claims he was deeply involved in the decision to cancel the missile shield in Europe. That explains a lot. Apparently, Biden doesn't think Iran is a threat. Some experts fear they will have enough uranium for a nuclear warhead by the end of this year. Iran is expected to have ICBM capability by 2015 or sooner.

CNN reported:

But he did explain the logic of doing so, saying Iran -- a key concern for the United States -- was not a threat.
...
I am less concerned -- much less concerned -- about the Iranian potential. They have no potential at this moment...

Biden said he is "deeply" involved in the review of the missile defense program.

North Korea doesn't want us to defend Hawaii

Since we are putting a missile defense shield around Hawaii, North Korea is accusing the US of preparing for a preemptive attack against them.

From the Washington Post:

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea criticized the U.S. on Monday for positioning missile defense systems around Hawaii, calling the deployment part of a plot to attack the regime and saying it would bolster its nuclear arsenal in retaliation.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said he ordered the deployment of a ground-based, mobile missile intercept system and radar system to Hawaii amid concerns the North may fire a long-range missile toward the islands, about 4,500 miles away.

"Through the U.S. forces' clamorous movements, it has been brought to light that the U.S. attempt to launch a pre-emptive strike on our republic has become a brutal fact," the North's main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary.

The paper also accused the U.S. of deploying nuclear-powered aircraft and atomic-armed submarines in waters near the Korean peninsula, saying the moves prove "the U.S. pre-emptive nuclear war" on the North is imminent.

The commentary, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, said the North will bolster its nuclear arsenal in self-defense.

The Jawa Report has a great comment:

So let me get this straight. First North Korea launches short, mid and long range missiles, detonates a nuclear bomb, threatens nuclear war, announces it's going to launch a missile towards Hawaii on Independence Day and the US is gearing for war?

Can you guess who else is against a missile defense shield....President Obama.