It went directly over Japans airspace. My question is why wasnt it shot down...Thats the only thing kimmy would maybe understand. If it fell short, it would have actually hit Japan.
It went directly over Japans airspace. My question is why wasnt it shot down...Thats the only thing kimmy would maybe understand. If it fell short, it would have actually hit Japan.
It wasn't shot down because it was 341 MILES altitude as it passed over Hokkaido and I don't think the JSDF has anything that shoots quite that high.
Time to take the mental miget out.. phuck this waiting crap.. As fun as it would be to see the west cost grid go down to see them go bonkers, I'd rather just daydream about it, not wait and allow it to happen, then act..
It wasn't shot down because it was 341 MILES altitude as it passed over Hokkaido and I don't think the JSDF has anything that shoots quite that high.
Japan is an ally. We should have shot it down before it got over Japan. To me that was a hostile action by NK. I think 341 miles is a big exaggeration by someone...thats 100 miles higher than the space station, and i think NK barely, if at all has the ability to put anything into orbit.
Japan is an ally. We should have shot it down before it got over Japan. To me that was a hostile action by NK. I think 341 miles is a big exaggeration by someone...thats 100 miles higher than the space station, and i think NK barely, if at all has the ability to put anything into orbit.
Making things go UP isn't the big problem Roger.
Getting them to go at a high enough speed and trajectory to orbit the earth IS.
That is precisely why precision guidance and precise thrust impulse and duration is so critical and also why North Korea is struggling with this kind of technology.
For comparison, the German V2 rocket in WW2 reached an altitude of >108 miles and it was extremely primitive technology compared to what most technologically developed nations could do 15 years later in 1960. (You might recall that the Soviets put Sputnik 1 in orbit in 1957)
I have no doubt in my mind that after the initial boost phase and rough guidance, that North Korean rocket was completely ballistic up to apogee and during decent. Much like a conventional artillery shell.
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President Trump pushes a button on his desk when he wants a Coke. Or is it a Pepsi? One of those famous Yankee soft drinks. Guess who else has a button that he likes to push.
"Click" on this thumbnail image to enlarge. The better to see all of those pearly whites. It's Happy Hour again in North Korea, and Kim Jong Un is all over it.
That's a new photo released by the North Korean News Agency.
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I think theyre just blasting them up and pretty much letting them fall where they may. Probably using the same methods as the V2. Amature homemade rockets can go up miles in the air too. Not much guidance, just pointing them a little at launch toward where they want them to go like an arrow. The Russians had huge multi stage booster rockets...bigger than ours...to put Sputnik, the size of a basketball, into orbit. From what Ive seen, kimmy dont even have multi stage rockets...their barely better than V2s. Rockets that just haphazardly fly away is a very dangerous game to play. Id kind of hope some may be huge failures and fall right back on one of their own cities.
