Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Bad Moon Rising

The Paper Tiger Bush has only one nation which he can push around and that is Israel.
So all he can do with Iran is talk tough. Iran is egging us on for a fight and Russia and China will not sit on the sidelines when this one 'accidently ' starts and blows us into the trubulation period.
Our many enemie's see that we are weak and stretched too thin
and in financial free fall.
Has their window of opportunity arrived ?
This one will begin with nukes and remove the US from meddleing in Israel's affairs.


The NATO designated SS-N-27B "Sizzler" are missiles are armed with a 70-kilogram HE warhead and can reach a target 16 nautical miles away. The missile flies near the surface of the ocean at subsonic speed until it nears its target, when it becomes supersonic and flies in an evasive flight path specifically designed to defeat the Aegis weapons systems that the aircraft carrier’s escorting ships are equipped. In comparison the Russian-made 3M-82 Moskit, NATO designation SS-N-22 "Sunburn", is a anti-ship cruise missile.

This is a weapon for which the US Navy currently has no defense.

It can deliver a 200-kiloton nuclear payload, or: a 750-pound conventional warhead, within a range of 100 miles, more than twice the range of the Exocet. The Sunburn combines a Mach 2.1 speed with a flight pattern that hugs the deck and includes "violent end maneuvers" to elude enemy defenses. The missile was specifically designed to defeat the US Aegis radar defense system. Should a US Navy Phalanx point defense somehow manage to detect an incoming Sunburn missile, the system has only seconds to calculate a fire solution not enough time to take out the intruding missile. The US Phalanx defense employs a six-barreled gun that fires 3,000 depleted-uranium rounds a minute, but the gun must have precise coordinates to destroy an intruder "just in time." The Sunburn missile has never seen use in combat, to my knowledge, which probably explains why its fearsome capabilities are not more widely recognized. Other cruise missiles have been used, of course, on several occasions, and with devastating results. During the Falklands War, French-made Exocet missiles, fired from Argentine fighters, sunk the HMS Sheffield and another ship. And, in 1987, prior to the Iran-Iraq war, the USS Stark was nearly cut in half by a pair of Exocets while on patrol in the Persian Gulf. On that occasion US Aegis radar picked up the incoming Iraqi fighter (a French-made Mirage), and tracked its approach to within 50 miles. The radar also "saw" the Iraqi plane turn about and return to its base. But radar never detected the pilot launch his weapons. The sea-skimming Exocets came smoking in under radar and were only sighted by human eyes moments before they ripped into the Stark, crippling the ship and killing 37 US sailors. Ships presently in the Gulf already have come within range of even more-advanced SS-NX-26 Yakhonts missiles, also Russian-made (speed: Mach 2.9; range: 180 miles) deployed by the Iranians along the Gulf's northern shore. Every US ship in the Gulf is presently exposed and vulnerable to this threat.

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