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That's freak'n provocative...

Pretty much casus belli for military retaliation... of course NK does this to Japan whose military can't be used....

 whembly wrote:
That's freak'n provocative...

Pretty much casus belli for military retaliation... of course NK does this to Japan whose military can't be used....

Nah mate, JSDF is ready to roll now, their restrictions on offensive operations, overseas deployments etc all gone, they don't even need approval to engage anymore.

 Ginsu33 wrote:

 whembly wrote:
That's freak'n provocative...

Pretty much casus belli for military retaliation... of course NK does this to Japan whose military can't be used....

Nah mate, JSDF is ready to roll now, their restrictions on offensive operations, overseas deployments etc all gone, they don't even need approval to engage anymore.

JDF need to get there alert up and be prepared.
If the gak storm comes. It will come and they need to be ready.

 jhe90 wrote:

 Ginsu33 wrote:

 whembly wrote:
That's freak'n provocative...

Pretty much casus belli for military retaliation... of course NK does this to Japan whose military can't be used....

Nah mate, JSDF is ready to roll now, their restrictions on offensive operations, overseas deployments etc all gone, they don't even need approval to engage anymore.

JDF need to get there alert up and be prepared.
If the gak storm comes. It will come and they need to be ready.

I'm not sure what you mean, at the moment their focus is on both the Senkaku and Ryukyu islands with their rapid reaction force that their building up.

 MrDwhitey wrote:
Well North Korea launched a missile that flew over Japan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41078187

Just as we were about to start considering Trump to be a strategic genius, too.

 Ouze wrote:

 MrDwhitey wrote:
Well North Korea launched a missile that flew over Japan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41078187

Just as we were about to start considering Trump to be a strategic genius, too.

whut?

If anything it's Mattis + Tillerson.

Just not sure what we can do when you have a criminal cartel essentially extorting the rest of the world.

C'mon, be fair.

You guys aren't that bad !

No effort was made by Japan to shoot down the missile

is it really even that feasible to do this ?

 reds8n wrote:

No effort was made by Japan to shoot down the missile

is it really even that feasible to do this ?

I say these nukes'll probably wake Godzilla up, and then North Korea is in a whole heap of gak.

This same NK scenraio would be happening no matter who got elected US president. The NK will always test the new president to see how they will respond.

Personally, I think the US should simply respond by shrugging their shoulders and yawning in a bored way.

 Ouze wrote:

 reds8n wrote:

No effort was made by Japan to shoot down the missile

is it really even that feasible to do this ?

Probably not, but if THAAD (or a similar system) could, I don't think we'd disclose it for fear of triggering a new arms race.

"Pay attention to us!"


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 Easy E wrote:
This same NK scenraio would be happening no matter who got elected US president. The NK will always test the new president to see how they will respond.

Personally, I think the US should simply respond by shrugging their shoulders and yawning in a bored way.

Well, I don't think the same scenario would be happening because we wouldn't otherwise have an immature man-child responding to them

Well looks like Japan needs to send out its newest protective assets

Missile was fired past Japan through a low populous area between Hokkaido and Honshu, a large portion of JDSF armor (7th Division) is stationed on Hokkaido. Aegis is deployed to intercept expected missiles headed to populous areas aka cities, they probably could not have intercepted since they weren't in the flight path.

There is no THAAD in Japan but they do have AN/TPY2 slaved to a PAC-3 system. They're not going to get a THAAD since they picked Aegis Ashore over it.

The ones in SK are in Seongju, and the missile flew on a northern route intended to avoid it. THAAD kills on missile descent, if your missile apogees outside the kill zone (like the Sea of Japan), THAAD aint hittin nuttin.

If they did attempt a shoot down, the chance of success was probably low and why bother when you know the trajectory. Anyways, nothing to see here. It's just a game.

That's an act of war actually. If no did this over Hawaii then there's a really good chance we would be emptying our inventory of remaining bombs and missiles into NK within 24 hours.

What is an isn't an act of war depends on the circumstances. An act of war is only that when a nation has nerve to start a war over the act.

The most important thing is letting the South Koreans have some control of the situation. Their domestic view of geopolitics is heavily tied to the perception of either being a partner to the US or a lapdog. Unilateral escalation on the US and Japan's part reinforces the latter and weakens the alliance.

Moon has been in power for what, 4 months? He was elected on an anti-US aggression platform, give him time to reverse position. Let Northern aggression turn him around like Park Guen-hye.

Shooting a missile into the US would demand an immediate an overwhelming response. That's policy back to Truman.

 Frazzled wrote:
Shooting a missile into the US would demand an immediate an overwhelming response. That's policy back to Truman.

Has anyone shot a missile at the US since the Japanese fire balloons of WW2?

One of the cartels was flinging drugs over the wall via a trebuchet. Does that count

By one definition of missile, yes.

Mr. President, we cannot allow a Trebuchet Gap!

 feeder wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Shooting a missile into the US would demand an immediate an overwhelming response. That's policy back to Truman.

Has anyone shot a missile at the US since the Japanese fire balloons of WW2?

Yeah, some months back, one of Britain's trident submarines accidentally fired a nuclear warhead towards Florida during a training exercise. Luckily, it was only a dummy missle.

Can't believe the USA bought the training exercise mistake. We'll get those 13 colonies back one day

If it landed in Florida, a gator would intercept it and eat it...

 Frazzled wrote:
If it landed in Florida, a gator would intercept it and eat it...

Reminds me of that time in ww2 when a Japanese battalion took a shortcut through some swamps in China. Only a few made it out because the rest got eaten by gators.

 avantgarde wrote:
Missile was fired past Japan through a low populous area between Hokkaido and Honshu, a large portion of JDSF armor (7th Division) is stationed on Hokkaido. Aegis is deployed to intercept expected missiles headed to populous areas aka cities, they probably could not have intercepted since they weren't in the flight path.

There is no THAAD in Japan but they do have AN/TPY2 slaved to a PAC-3 system. They're not going to get a THAAD since they picked Aegis Ashore over it.

The ones in SK are in Seongju, and the missile flew on a northern route intended to avoid it. THAAD kills on missile descent, if your missile apogees outside the kill zone (like the Sea of Japan), THAAD aint hittin nuttin.

If they did attempt a shoot down, the chance of success was probably low and why bother when you know the trajectory. Anyways, nothing to see here. It's just a game.

On the subject of the JDF, how effective would they be in a combat situation? It's been a long time since they had any combat experience. I don't doubt they'd be well trained and motivated, but nothing beats experience.

Of course, on the flip side, the NKs wouldn't have much either, despite the fact that most of their generals seem to have 40+ medals each!


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 Frazzled wrote:
If it landed in Florida, a gator would intercept it and eat it...

Frazz, we're talking about something made in Britain by the Q department. It would probably have Bat repellant gator spray built into it.

Touche. Your haggis launchers are far more deadly though.

 Frazzled wrote:
Well looks like Japan needs to send out its newest protective assets

Agreed! We need more Reflex Cannon in the region. Now that is MAD!

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

 feeder wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Shooting a missile into the US would demand an immediate an overwhelming response. That's policy back to Truman.

Has anyone shot a missile at the US since the Japanese fire balloons of WW2?

Yeah, some months back, one of Britain's trident submarines accidentally fired a nuclear warhead towards Florida during a training exercise. Luckily, it was only a dummy missle.

Can't believe the USA bought the training exercise mistake. We'll get those 13 colonies back one day

Florida?

meh.

 Desubot wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

 feeder wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Shooting a missile into the US would demand an immediate an overwhelming response. That's policy back to Truman.

Has anyone shot a missile at the US since the Japanese fire balloons of WW2?

Yeah, some months back, one of Britain's trident submarines accidentally fired a nuclear warhead towards Florida during a training exercise. Luckily, it was only a dummy missle.

Can't believe the USA bought the training exercise mistake. We'll get those 13 colonies back one day

Florida?

meh.

Maybe we should of made it calafornia. Some people Don, t like that state.

 Desubot wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

 feeder wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Shooting a missile into the US would demand an immediate an overwhelming response. That's policy back to Truman.

Has anyone shot a missile at the US since the Japanese fire balloons of WW2?

Yeah, some months back, one of Britain's trident submarines accidentally fired a nuclear warhead towards Florida during a training exercise. Luckily, it was only a dummy missle.

Can't believe the USA bought the training exercise mistake. We'll get those 13 colonies back one day

Florida?

meh.

Not cool. You don't shoot a guy in the dick.