Comments on: Missing Pieces in Missile Defense http://blog.heritage.org/2009/04/03/missing-pieces-in-missile-defense/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:29:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: proparanoid http://blog.heritage.org/2009/04/03/missing-pieces-in-missile-defense/#comment-334571 proparanoid Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:02:42 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=4874#comment-334571 One reason why SBX may be in 'dry dock' is obsolescence and sitting duckiness - replaced by a much more mobile and low-profile solution: Pacific Tracker XTR-1, US Missile Defense Agency Transportable Radar Ship is operational, assembled here in Portland, OR, commissioned April 2009. SBX is more a research platform (literally), but XTR is an outright weapon system. Images and details: <a href="http://themaritimeblog.com/2204/ss-pacific-tracker-proof-old-ships-are-worth-something" rel="nofollow">http://themaritimeblog.com/2204/ss-pacific-tracke...</a> One reason why SBX may be in 'dry dock' is obsolescence and sitting duckiness – replaced by a much more mobile and low-profile solution: Pacific Tracker XTR-1, US Missile Defense Agency Transportable Radar Ship is operational, assembled here in Portland, OR, commissioned April 2009. SBX is more a research platform (literally), but XTR is an outright weapon system.
Images and details: http://themaritimeblog.com/2204/ss-pacific-tracke…

]]> By: louis hoffmeyer sain http://blog.heritage.org/2009/04/03/missing-pieces-in-missile-defense/#comment-26770 louis hoffmeyer sain Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:16:15 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=4874#comment-26770 ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S federalists papers #65 (the power of the senate) GAVE THE RIGHT TO THE SENATE THE POWER TO IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT FOR THE MISCONDUCT, ABUSE OR VIOLATION OF PUBLIC TRUST WHICH IS INJURIES DONE IMMEDIATELY TO THE SOCIETY ITSELF. I WOULD SAY THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NATIONS MONETARY SYSTEM AND THE SUBSTANTIAL LOSS TO THE PENSION SYSTEM AND HIDING THE FACT THAT WE WAS IN FACT A SOCIALIST WOULD BE GROUNDS TO IMPEACH... ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S federalists papers #65 (the power of the senate) GAVE THE RIGHT TO THE SENATE THE POWER TO IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT FOR THE MISCONDUCT, ABUSE OR VIOLATION OF PUBLIC TRUST WHICH IS INJURIES DONE IMMEDIATELY TO THE SOCIETY ITSELF. I WOULD SAY THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NATIONS MONETARY SYSTEM AND THE SUBSTANTIAL LOSS TO THE PENSION SYSTEM AND HIDING THE FACT THAT WE WAS IN FACT A SOCIALIST WOULD BE GROUNDS TO IMPEACH…

]]> By: Diogenes of New Jers http://blog.heritage.org/2009/04/03/missing-pieces-in-missile-defense/#comment-25898 Diogenes of New Jers Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:25:39 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=4874#comment-25898 One reason to keep SBX in port may have to do with another intelligence collection platform that may have been on the scene. The platform of note is Cobra Judy: <a href="http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/nssrm/initiatives/cobrajud.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/nssrm/ini...</a> Cobra Judy’s mission is to collect highly accurate intelligence information on just such events. With all of the other radar equipped ships (US Navy, Japanese Navy & South Korean Navy) observing the event, an additional high power radar such as SBX could actually have degraded the overall picture. If Cobra Judy was there, you can rest assured that we have obtained as much information as possible on this event. There are also numerous sensors at PMRF: <a href="http://(https://www.cnic.navy.mil/barkingsands/index.htm)" rel="nofollow">(https://www.cnic.navy.mil/barkingsands/index.htm)</a> that would no doubt observe the pieces that made it as far as Hawaii. The chances of any significant debris hitting anything other than ocean are very very small. Kyon One reason to keep SBX in port may have to do with another intelligence collection platform that may have been on the scene. The platform of note is Cobra Judy: http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/nssrm/ini…

Cobra Judy’s mission is to collect highly accurate intelligence information on just such events. With all of the other radar equipped ships (US Navy, Japanese Navy & South Korean Navy) observing the event, an additional high power radar such as SBX could actually have degraded the overall picture.

If Cobra Judy was there, you can rest assured that we have obtained as much information as possible on this event. There are also numerous sensors at PMRF: (https://www.cnic.navy.mil/barkingsands/index.htm) that would no doubt observe the pieces that made it as far as Hawaii. The chances of any significant debris hitting anything other than ocean are very very small.

Kyon

]]> By: Ross, Bradenton, F http://blog.heritage.org/2009/04/03/missing-pieces-in-missile-defense/#comment-25858 Ross, Bradenton, F Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:08:28 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=4874#comment-25858 Regretfully we have a President who "hasn't a clue" how to properly utilize our military to maximize not only our national security but to protect us from hostile,hell-bent renegade governments, and numerous armed organizations plotting to destroy our very ways of life, our uniquely American culture, plus our christian mores and values. Not understanding, thus grossly mismanaging our national military assets has been an overwhelming handicap of ever Democrat president after JFK. History, so far borne out this inherit shortcoming. Regretfully we have a President who "hasn't a clue" how to properly utilize our military to maximize not only our national security but to protect us from hostile,hell-bent renegade governments, and numerous armed organizations plotting to destroy our very ways of life, our uniquely American culture, plus our christian mores and values.

Not understanding, thus grossly mismanaging our national military assets has been an overwhelming handicap of ever Democrat president after JFK. History, so far borne out this inherit shortcoming.

]]> By: Richard Dutchik Mel http://blog.heritage.org/2009/04/03/missing-pieces-in-missile-defense/#comment-25825 Richard Dutchik Mel Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:20:21 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=4874#comment-25825 I worked on this vessel, and was part of the test team during the initial Sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico, completed just a few years ago when this photo was taken. Sadly; I have seen the SBX anchored at Ford Island more often than not, and could not agree more with our senior military leaders, who according to the article, requested the SBX to be on station over the past weekend to monitor the North Korea tests. One can only wonder who has the power to overrule our most senior military leaders, and why? I worked on this vessel, and was part of the test team during the initial Sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico, completed just a few years ago when this photo was taken.

Sadly; I have seen the SBX anchored at Ford Island more often than not, and could not agree more with our senior military leaders, who according to the article, requested the SBX to be on station over the past weekend to monitor the North Korea tests. One can only wonder who has the power to overrule our most senior military leaders, and why?

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