He does have 40 Submarines and Also they are Capable of Hitting Japan and possibly our west Coast. As to where they got this Capability. It was China as they gave them the Launchers.
Kim Jong Un has IMHO already done enough to justify a US military response. He's pointed missiles at American bases in Japan and Guam. He cut the line that allows emergency communications between North and South Korea. Last year he fired missiles at a South Korean residitial area killing innocent civilians seemingly for no other reason than to look tough/crazy. Before his rise to power his father ignored the international community and has successfully proliferated nuclear weapons, weapons Junior now possesses. Under treaty agreements, military actions against South Korea are considered attacks on the United States of America. Un has publically stated a state of war exists between North South Korea, translation: he declared war against America under US treaty obligations. The question is will he come to his senses and back up and/or will president Obama spank that A and treat North Korea as part axis of evil or ignore him? My observation is Obama talks a good game of peace and love when it comes to playing nice with homocidal maniacs but still kicks butt most of the time.
Not sure if I should even say this but I heard on relatively good authority troops scheduled for deployment in Afghanistan have had their orders cancelled 'in case they're needed elsewhere.' A new type of naval sea to surface battle ship never used before is now parked off the coast of North Korea.
Maybe you better get on the phone and tell Obama he doesn't need to deploy those F-22's.
BTW: The F-15 E is a tactical strike aircraft not an air superiority fighter. It's the closest thing we could come up with for the replacement of the F-111.
The F-15 C is the air superiority fighter.
With the F-22, yes. Insofar as it is a game of plane v plane. Without it, not as much, no.
The F-35 is a nightmare because they tried to make the plane a replacement for everything else. The A-10? Really? :roll:
"Oh"......and what About the Mig 29. Do you think the F 15 can take those on? Also we have only a total of 160 F22. Moreover Drones wont work over N Korea. Ya have to control the Sky first.
North Korea has a history of pulling **** and nothing else happening.So I say no nothing is going to happen.Kim Jong Un has IMHO already done enough to justify a US military response. He's pointed missiles at American bases in Japan and Guam. He cut the line that allows emergency communications between North and South Korea. Last year he fired missiles at a South Korean residitial area killing innocent civilians seemingly for no other reason than to look tough/crazy. Before his rise to power his father ignored the international community and has successfully proliferated nuclear weapons, weapons Junior now possesses. Under treaty agreements, military actions against South Korea are considered attacks on the United States of America. Un has publically stated a state of war exists between North South Korea, translation: he declared war against America under US treaty obligations. The question is will he come to his senses and back up and/or will president Obama spank that A and treat North Korea as part axis of evil or ignore him? My observation is Obama talks a good game of peace and love when it comes to playing nice with homocidal maniacs but still kicks butt most of the time.
Not sure if I should even say this but I heard on relatively good authority troops scheduled for deployment in Afghanistan have had their orders cancelled 'in case they're needed elsewhere.' A new type of naval sea to surface battle ship never used before is now parked off the coast of North Korea.
"Oh"......and what About the Mig 29. Do you think the F 15 can take those on? Also we have only a total of 160 F22. Moreover Drones wont work over N Korea. Ya have to control the Sky first.
Actually the F-15 is the only fighter in the world with a perfect record. 100 kills to zero losses. Including the Mig 29. The F-15 is still a very viable and excellent aircraft it is just very much out classed in almost all ways with significant margin by the F-22. The F-22 would be a more cost and actual effective way of securing superiority while the F-15 is the cost effective way to maintain it.
...or Tokyo, Okinawa, Alaska, Naval Base Guam and Anderson AF Base in Guam.
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There's one problem with your post. There never was a peace treaty signed. Technically the U.S. has been in a state of war with North Korea since 1950. All that was agreed on was a cease fire, that's all.
I see today (Sunday) Obama has ordered F-22's to the region.
Lets see, F-22's, B-2 bombers and anti ballistic anti missile batteries all deployed to the region. Everyone of those weapons platforms Obama and the liberals have opposed being funded and built.
Do you see a problem here ?
I always want the the troops to have the best equipment, but there's a practical side to this as well. I don't deny the F-22s superiority over anything else that flies these days, but in terms of dollars vs benefits I just don't see the value, its an air superiority fighter at at time when in our current wars we have air superiority by default meaning we don't even have to fight for it. Plus you have the fact that an F-22 costs about 5 times more than an F-15C, Apache was right about the designation, now does an F-22.
Its an amazing piece of equipment that's for sure but I don't know if I see it as being worth the taxpayer dollars that went into it.
Well what about with a few Mig 35s? I don't think they will be able to hold that Perfect Record if they had to encounter such. Moreover, lets not forget all the Sam Sites and Mobile Launchers that will be assisting them should anything take place over their Skies. This wont be like Afghanistan or Iraq.
Not that I think it will come to that. But you Know we cant send in the drones until we have control of the Skies.
It can hold its own against Su-35s and other Su27 airframe aircraft, but the F-22 should be used to secure Air Superiority and F-15's maintain it. Our current series of drones would be easy meat in a conflicted airspace.
I always want the the troops to have the best equipment, but there's a practical side to this as well. I don't deny the F-22s superiority over anything else that flies these days, but in terms of dollars vs benefits I just don't see the value, its an air superiority fighter at at time when in our current wars we have air superiority by default meaning we don't even have to fight for it. Plus you have the fact that an F-22 costs about 5 times more than an F-15C, Apache was right about the designation, now does an F-22.
Its an amazing piece of equipment that's for sure but I don't know if I see it as being worth the taxpayer dollars that went into it.
Sigh. More of the same partisan bull**** from you. Had Democrats opposed those weapons systems they never would have been built. Grow up.
What it finally comes down too, Obama made a decision that the USAF disagreed with. The Air Force said they would need a minimum of 400 F-22's to guarantee air superiority for the next 50 years.
That the production lines were shut down but the manufactures and hundreds of sub contractors held off for three years before dismantling and scrapping the production line until after the 2012 elections. By next year it will be impossible to reopen production of any more F-22's even though Russia and China both have come out with their own version of the F-22.
Obama made a decision and many Generals say that Obama refuses to look at what threats America may be facing twenty or thirty years over the horizon. As one General told me, "Obama is a national security threat."
In December 2004, the Rumsfeld Pentagon used a technical budget ruling known as a program budget decision to yank funds from a range of different programs. The cuts hit primarily from 2006 through 2010. For the air dominance force, it was devastating. Program Budget Decision 753 broke up the post-Gulf War fighter plan for good.
PBD 753 slashed $10 billion from the F-22 procurement budget, leaving the program of record at an anemic level of just 183 F-22s. PBD 753’s reductions put the fighter force structure into the red. Without doubt, it left unfunded the Air Force’s requirement for fighters to meet deployment tasking for war plans under the national military strategy.
What it finally comes down too, Obama made a decision that the USAF disagreed with. The Air Force said they would need a minimum of 400 F-22's to guarantee air superiority for the next 50 years.
That the production lines were shut down but the manufactures and hundreds of sub contractors held off for three years before dismantling and scrapping the production line until after the 2012 elections. By next year it will be impossible to reopen production of any more F-22's even though Russia and China both have come out with their own version of the F-22.
Obama made a decision and many Generals say that Obama refuses to look at what threats America may be facing twenty or thirty years over the horizon. As one General told me, "Obama is a national security threat."
How exactly will it be "impossible" to reopen the F-22 line? I find that curious the word impossible being used since after all it was built in the first place. I believe the word expensive should be used. Not impossible.
Our current series of drones would be easy meat in a conflicted airspace.