Iran’s Missile Test: Getting the Facts Straight on North Korea’s Cooperation | 38 North: Informed...

LTC (Join to see) - I'm a Retired Navy Spook which Means when it comes down to it I don't trust anybody On Our Side or Theirs. Remember Our Motto. "In God We Trust, All Others We Monitor". Having said that I do believe like the Sting Song "Russians" "They Love Their Children Too" A lot of Posturing, nothing more. Also You are comparing Apples and Oranges. ISIS is SUNI, Wahabi, Iranians are Shia. Yes the Iranians sponsored and still sponsor Hezbolah "Party of God" which were SOB Terrorists in the 80's in Beirut but they are Relatively Boy Scouts compared to all the Wahabi Organizations. Also the Iranians are Backing Syrian President Assad Alloite and the Syrian Christians are Aligned with Assad and the Alloite. You have an Outdated Scorecard.

LTC (Join to see) - On a Technical Level I still don't know if it is Solid Fuel Propellant (Glorified Bottle Rocket) If it is I'm Impressed with the Range or Liquid Fuel More Impressive if it was a Successful Mission but I have yet to Hear of a Successful Test by the North Koreans or Iran. Without Reliable Telemetry Data and by all indications they just chucked a big old piece of metal into the air and let it fall which makes it "Balistic" but not necessarily very impressive.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - you'll be one of the most informative people here when it comes to the intelligence apparatus or situation and now you have a new world which I'm not familiar with with this Telemetry tracking. I'm glad you could put this all in good context and just be patient with some of us conservatives here who are not used to walking across the aisle and having it on a difference of opinion discussion without going off like a tactical nuke. I still feel though, that these Boy Scouts are trying to refine the missiles just like the Germans were in the movie The Right Stuff for all their early Rockets kept blowing up on the launch pad in the sixties just like they did the nineteen forties at at the V2 missile launch sites.

LTC (Join to see) Who doesn't try and Improve their Toys and every Failure is a Learning Experience, 600 Miles Downrange is Really Damn Impressive. Also 2 Tours off Bushehr I still say the Persians are the Best at Field Modifications. Kings of Bubble Gum and Paper Clip Repairs. I have a Healthy Respect for the Culture and Intelligence.

We closed NSGA Adak, AK a long time ago and that and our facilities in Japan seem to be the only thing in Range. Com5thflt in the Persian Gulf. I have yet to Hear of a Successful Launch from the Telemetry Data although this one might be it. New System and It Is Portable but I still think it is 15 yrs before it is Reliable. Slightly better than chucking a big old piece of steel in the air and just as likely it will fall to ground on top of you as your enemy. Call It Experience. Going to Take a Lot More To Convince Me "The Sky is Falling"

They are with in Range of Okinawa and several islands with special importance... the ones Blacked out on Google earth with Long runways west of Hawaii... and east of Wake and Midway...
But with a 3rd stage rocket they will be able to Hit the folks in the western Canada and Alaska and in the case of the Koreans they don't care who they Hit...