One possible reason to ground planes for an ICBM launch is if they were worried about a high-altitude nuclear detonation causing an EMP that could screw with airplanes’ control systems.

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Originally posted by PASig:
If Trump wasn't feared or respected by KJU, then explain why all these "test" launches of various NK missiles virtually stopped during his time in office, then picked right back up when he was gone?

This is what I mean. You THINK it stopped.

Like I said, I do this daily. But listen to the news if that's what gives you a chub.

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Originally posted by 220-9er:

I think others may be confusing the supposed reduction in tests with the claim they stopped their atomic tests (not missile) during part of the Trump administration.

https://www.npr.org/sections/t...tests-shows-progress

That April 2018 report was that Kim announced that the NORKS would stop missile and nuclear testing, not that he actually did. He did not stop missile testing and made a lot more tests after the date of that story. There have been no further nuke tests after September 2017. The NORKS claimed to have tested a fusion bomb in September 2017, but some westerners thought it was a boosted fission bomb.

Given that they continued to test missiles after that announcement and during Trump's term, I think it is more rational to think they stopped testing nukes for their own reasons, and not out of fear of the U.S. under Trump.

Trump took credit, of course, as any politician would.

JHE is absolutely correct.

Nothing actually stopped, just smoke and mirrors from politicians.

The reason no more Nuke tests have happened is a lot more comical than you'd ever guess and it also has nothing to do with diplomacy.

I got folks making cases that our policies are preventing them from doing something that will 99% surely end in their own demise. They're not ignorant, that's not fear or respect of policy, that's human freaking nature.

I can't argue no more, Ive said it once, now it's on me wasting my own breath.

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Originally posted by OttoSig:

The reason no more Nuke tests have happened is a lot more comical than you'd ever guess and it also has nothing to do with diplomacy.

It seems to me I remember something about them damaging their own test sites. But what I can find is that while they closed the tunnels by demolishing the entrances, the support buildings are not gone, and the tunnels themselves are still there and the entrances could be re-opened.

Perhaps, and this is just a guess, they are trying to conserve fissile material, which is not easy to make. That isn't comical, though, so . . .

Maybe they realized they knew how to make a working bomb and that more tests weren't needed. Again, not very comical.

C'mon guys... Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?

There are folks on this forum that are bona fide experts in certain fields. That is inevitable, on a forum this large and diverse.

But the sad truth is that a decent number of them end up getting driven away from the forum by the actions of other members. It usually goes something like this:

A topic is posted about which someone is an expert. The expert chimes in to post information based on their expertise. Then the thread gets dogpiled by other members who think they are experts, based on what they've seen on the news, or read on the interwebs, or heard at the lunch counter, or whatever, but who actually don't know what they're talking about (or as much as they think they know). The expert's information then gets drowned out - or even actively argued against - by the casual musings of the uninformed/misinformed/less-informed.

Unfortunately, this sometimes happens to the extent that the experts then get frustrated and either quit the forum altogether, or just stop responding to threads involving their area of expertise, depriving us of their valuable input either way.

Doesn't matter if it's appliance repair, or foreign relations, or the law, or finances, or gunsmithing. It keeps happening.

We've gotta do better.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
C'mon guys... How many time do we have to do this?

There are folks on this forum that are bonafide experts in certain fields. That is inevitable, on a forum this large and diverse.

But the sad truth is that a decent number of them end up getting driven away from the forum by the actions of other members. It usually goes something like this:

A topic is posted about which someone is an expert. They post information based on their expertise. Then the thread gets dogpiled by other members who think they are experts in their own mind, based on what they've seen on the news, or read on the interwebs, or heard at the lunch counter, or whatever, but who actually don't know what they're talking about (or as much as they think they know). The expert's information then gets drowned out - or even actively argued against - by the musing of the uninformed/misinformed.

Unfortunately, this tends to happen often enough that the experts then get frustrated and either quit the forum altogether, or just stop responding to threads involving their expertise, depriving us of their valuable input either way.

Doesn't matter if it's appliances, or foreign relations, or the law, or finances, or gunsmithing. It's happened before, and will likely happen again.

We've gotta do better.

Alas, the facts have very little to do with people's beliefs. They can, and will engage in all sorts of mental gyrations to square their beliefs with actual facts. I catch myself doing it sometimes. No one is immune.

Here is a brief description of the problem. Note that this comes from Texas A&M, which is not a hotbed of woke thought. TAMU is as conservative as a big, mainstream university can get.

https://today.tamu.edu/2020/12...contradictory-facts/

See also https://thefederalist.com/2014...-death-of-expertise/ , which then formed the basis of the expanded book of the same name by the same author.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
C'mon guys... Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?

There are folks on this forum that are bonafide experts in certain fields. That is inevitable, on a forum this large and diverse.

But the sad truth is that a decent number of them end up getting driven away from the forum by the actions of other members. It usually goes something like this:

A topic is posted about which someone is an expert. The expert chimes in to post information based on their expertise. Then the thread gets dogpiled by other members who think they are experts, based on what they've seen on the news, or read on the interwebs, or heard at the lunch counter, or whatever, but who actually don't know what they're talking about (or as much as they think they know). The expert's information then gets drowned out - or even actively argued against - by the casual musings of the uninformed/misinformed/less-informed.

Unfortunately, this sometimes happens to the extent that the experts then get frustrated and either quit the forum altogether, or just stop responding to threads involving their expertise, depriving us of their valuable input either way.

Doesn't matter if it's appliance repair, or foreign relations, or the law, or finances, or gunsmithing. It keeps happening.

We've gotta do better.

From experience, if he is who he says he is (not doubting necessarily) with the access e.g. have to be in a skiff to discuss … ok lookie here … you can’t talk class to unclass regardless of the room sec. So you should not even have the appearance of “knowing something” and telling the WORLD… Did you miss your recert on your class?

And I would never risk my Clarence talking about my specific job on the Internet forum… Ever

Furthermore I know people who have held that job as naval commanders.

If you’re read in… No Taki Taki

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Unfortunately, this tends to happen often enough that the experts then get frustrated and either quit the forum altogether, or just stop responding to threads involving their expertise, depriving us of their valuable input either way

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It is enjoyable to a point. Putting a bucket over a high presssure water line. That was funny in light of the engineering expertise shown by other members. I will admit that I refrain from commenting much less reading threads in my area.

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Originally posted by maladat:
One possible reason to ground planes for an ICBM launch is if they were worried about a high-altitude nuclear detonation causing an EMP that could screw with airplanes’ control systems.

An atmospheric nuclear detention would not only fry any nearby airplane avionics but, any electrical grid below and nearby orbiting satellites above as well... which would be enough justification to go to war. The NORKS are a lot of things but, I don't think they're going to do that at this point in the game.
In my uneducated opinion, the ground halt was likely to clear the air and give air defense radar clear airspace to track the launch. It could also have been an error, perhaps a test, no idea and there's been no comment from Strategic Command or FAA.

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Originally posted by SIGnified:

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
C'mon guys... Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?

There are folks on this forum that are bonafide experts in certain fields. That is inevitable, on a forum this large and diverse.

But the sad truth is that a decent number of them end up getting driven away from the forum by the actions of other members. It usually goes something like this:

A topic is posted about which someone is an expert. The expert chimes in to post information based on their expertise. Then the thread gets dogpiled by other members who think they are experts, based on what they've seen on the news, or read on the interwebs, or heard at the lunch counter, or whatever, but who actually don't know what they're talking about (or as much as they think they know). The expert's information then gets drowned out - or even actively argued against - by the casual musings of the uninformed/misinformed/less-informed.

Unfortunately, this sometimes happens to the extent that the experts then get frustrated and either quit the forum altogether, or just stop responding to threads involving their expertise, depriving us of their valuable input either way.

Doesn't matter if it's appliance repair, or foreign relations, or the law, or finances, or gunsmithing. It keeps happening.

We've gotta do better.

From experience, if he is who he says he is (not doubting necessarily) with the access e.g. have to be in a skiff to discuss … ok lookie here … you can’t talk class to unclass regardless of the room sec. So you should not even have the appearance of “knowing something” and telling the WORLD… Did you miss your recert on your class?

And I would never risk my Clarence talking about my specific job on the Internet forum… Ever

Furthermore I know people who have held that job as naval commanders.

If you’re read in… No Taki Taki

1. It's called a SCIF.
2. Because I handle classified information doesn't deny me the right to discuss open source information.
3. Simply stating I am a CTI in the Navy let's folks know more about what I do than this conversation.
4. Furthermore, knowing someone doesn't mean you know WTF you're talking about.

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Originally posted by OttoSig:

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Originally posted by SIGnified:

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
C'mon guys... Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?

There are folks on this forum that are bonafide experts in certain fields. That is inevitable, on a forum this large and diverse.

But the sad truth is that a decent number of them end up getting driven away from the forum by the actions of other members. It usually goes something like this:

A topic is posted about which someone is an expert. The expert chimes in to post information based on their expertise. Then the thread gets dogpiled by other members who think they are experts, based on what they've seen on the news, or read on the interwebs, or heard at the lunch counter, or whatever, but who actually don't know what they're talking about (or as much as they think they know). The expert's information then gets drowned out - or even actively argued against - by the casual musings of the uninformed/misinformed/less-informed.

Unfortunately, this sometimes happens to the extent that the experts then get frustrated and either quit the forum altogether, or just stop responding to threads involving their expertise, depriving us of their valuable input either way.

Doesn't matter if it's appliance repair, or foreign relations, or the law, or finances, or gunsmithing. It keeps happening.

We've gotta do better.

From experience, if he is who he says he is (not doubting necessarily) with the access e.g. have to be in a skiff to discuss … ok lookie here … you can’t talk class to unclass regardless of the room sec. So you should not even have the appearance of “knowing something” and telling the WORLD… Did you miss your recert on your class?

And I would never risk my Clarence talking about my specific job on the Internet forum… Ever

Furthermore I know people who have held that job as naval commanders.

If you’re read in… No Taki Taki

1. It's called a SCIF.
2. Because I handle classified information doesn't deny me the right to discuss open source information.
3. Simply stating I am a CTI in the Navy let's folks know more about what I do than this conversation.
4. Furthermore, knowing someone doesn't mean you know WTF you're talking about.

Ha ha ha lol


Good try … keep swinging…



Ha ha ha ha ha.

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Originally posted by OttoSig:

2. Because I handle classified information doesn't deny me the right to discuss open source information.

Quite right, but here it's all about diminish, deflect, and dismiss.

Yes, it's your job and you're an expert in your field but I think...because I read on the internet...you're fake news...this is the way it really is 'cause a friend of a friend told me...

Diminish you and put you down.

Deflect to a different subject or source.

Dismiss you entirely. Eliminate that which threatens their perceived world.

Familiar.

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Originally posted by corsair:

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Originally posted by maladat:
One possible reason to ground planes for an ICBM launch is if they were worried about a high-altitude nuclear detonation causing an EMP that could screw with airplanes’ control systems.

An atmospheric nuclear detention would not only fry any nearby airplane avionics but, any electrical grid below and nearby orbiting satellites above as well... which would be enough justification to go to war. The NORKS are a lot of things but, I don't think they're going to do that at this point in the game.
In my uneducated opinion, the ground halt was likely to clear the air and give air defense radar clear airspace to track the launch. It could also have been an error, perhaps a test, no idea and there's been no comment from Strategic Command or FAA.

I also have a pretty hard time believing they would be that stupid, but no doubt the government has emergency plans for it somewhere that include grounding aircraft.

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Originally posted by SIGnified:
Ha ha ha lol

Good try … keep swinging…

Ha ha ha ha ha.

Well, that was certainly convincing.

Or would have been, had you included "'nuff said" or <mic drop>.

^^^^^^^^^^
haha Shades of Rhino without the GIF

Sounding more like this "ground stop" news is somewhat overblown.
This wasn't a 9/11 type, stop all traffic, everybody on the ground right now, type incident.
Once again the Norks seem to be getting a lot of mileage for their money with an assist from their friends in the news media and internet chatter.

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Originally posted by OttoSig:


KIS presented Juche…

KJI changed it up a bit to "Songun"…

If the forum software will allow Korean characters, would you please write them in Korean?

An Air Force Times article today.
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Did the military prepare to shoot down a North Korean missile from the West Coast?

At around the same time North Korea said it fired off a hypersonic weapon, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop order for air traffic operating in the Western U.S. and Hawaii.

This was likely no coincidence, according to The War Zone. Both the overall duration of North Korea’s missile test and the grounding and subsequent resumption of U.S. flights occurred along the same timeline, the publication reported.

The War Zone reported that multiple pilot reports and radio communications from that day mention a “national security issue” as the reason for the temporary ground stop.

According to the War Zone, just before 2:30 pm PST on Jan. 10, North Korea test-launched a hypersonic missile eastward towards Japan and the U.S. By no later than 2:32 pm PST, ground stop orders were issued for Anchorage, Seattle, Oakland, and Los Angeles. Air traffic control messaging acquired by The War Zone indicated that NORAD advised of a missile launch from North Korea impacting air space from the Aleutian Islands south to Los Angeles.

Sixteen minutes later, according to The War Zone, NORAD issued another advisory, this time indicating that the North Korean missile had splashed in the waters off the coast of Japan and that regular air traffic could resume.

Additionally, the War Zone reports that NORAD advised the FAA to clear airspace around Vandenberg Space Force Base just minutes before the initial ground stop order to pilots was issued.

Vandenberg Space Force Base is located less than 200 north of Los Angeles and has long been the site of U.S. ballistic missile testing and employment. Additionally, Vandenberg is the home of a limited amount of Ground-Based Midcourse Defense missiles capable of intercepting ICBMs.

Who issued the ground-stoppage and why remains a question.

The Defense Department deferred comment to U.S. Northern Command, which did not immediately respond to a Military Times query.

U.S. Strategic Command would not comment on the incident to the Drive, while NORAD denied having a role in the issuance of the ground-stop-order. Additionally, the FAA released a statement on the ground stop order which stopped short of a reason for the agency doing so. The FAA did not immediately respond to a Military Times request for comment.

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