#slbm systems

[stone-cold-groove]

Front cover: UNIVAC Defense System’s CP-890 shipboard computer brochure - 1967.

[usafphantom2]

SR-71 could sneak into a denied area, get the take and leave before our enemy even knew we were there 🇺🇸🇺🇸

The SR-71 was never successfully intercepted by surface-to-air missile or aircraft. It had a state-of-the-art electronic defensive system which would defeat an incoming missile’s homing and steering. Detectors on board would alert the crew of a missile launch instantly and, since the SR-71 did not normally fly at its maximum speed or altitude, the aircraft’s defense was simultaneously to jam the missile’s guidance while accelerating, climbing, and turning with 45º of bank. No surface-to-air missile could out-turn, thus hit, an SR-71, a fact demonstrated many times, especially during the Vietnam War. Attempts to shoot down an SR-71 continued until August 25, 1981, which was the last time an enemy (North Korea) fired a surface-to-air missile at an SR-71; that mission was flown by Maury Rosenberg, pilot, and Ed McKim, Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO).

We carried an array of sophisticated sensors and recorders which could glean reconnaissance data with cameras capable of high-quality photographs horizon-to-horizon. We also had radar imagery capable of one-foot resolution. This was the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System (ASARS), which could deliver readable radar pictures night or day, bad weather or clear. I’m no photo interpreter, but even I could tell what was pictured. The SR-71 also carried electronic intelligence (ELINT) systems which are still classified. We advertised that the SR-71, within 24 hours notification, could be over any target on earth and be capable of surveying 100,000 square miles of terrain each hour. It was no idle boast.

I’ll summarize the importance of the SR-71 missions by quoting Paul Crickmore, noted aviation historian and Blackbird author, in a letter to me.

“In theatre, the SR-71 proved the concept of high-Mach, high-altitude flight, to obtain vital aerial reconnaissance. The SR-71 regularly conducted reconnaissance missions in the skies over North Vietnam – particularly around Hanoi in 1968-70 which at the time, was the most highly defended area on the planet.”

“The Blackbirds provided superior flexibility compared to satellites, time after time, specific examples—Yom Kippur War 1973, Yemen 1979, Cuba 1977—1990, Lebanon October 1983 (following the truck-bomb attack killing over 240 US Marines), Libya 1986, The Persian Gulf 1987, but perhaps most importantly, the on-going monitoring of Soviet nuclear submarine fleets for the US Navy—particularly the Northern Fleet with their submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), capable of hitting large areas of the United States, as well as all Allied Countries.”

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[velvialifestylesummit]

The impotence of NATO in providing new troops to tackling the deficiency of soldiers for Ukraine under the gallant participation of local tenacious women in supporting the military troops against the intrusion of Russia should be considered for picking up a prestigious experienced military woman candidate to lead the Pentagon as evinced by the military contributions of General Jennie Carignan from Canada might help resolve the sceptical appointment for the position of Defense Secretary at the Pentagon. Due to the military dilemma of Kyiv, the Canadian Armed Forces led by General Jennie Carignan is suggested to help manoveure the women troops of Ukraine in fortifying Kyiv against the intrusion of Russia. The slumbering consensus of America is supposed to accept the war protocol for military operations in Ukraine via the deployment of super carriers in Black Sea for WWIII. The slumbering presidency of Trump needs to admit the nullification of hegemony under the siege of BRICS. The fiasco of Biden Presidency to ruin the projected hegemonic recalibration without the corresponding hawk tactics for the military escalation of WWIII tends to be another scandalous duplicity of America hampering the necessary deployments of the air defence system and SLBM in Black Sea for WWIII. The highly sceptical appointment of a childish nominee to succeed the position of Lloyd Austin as the next secretary of the Pentagon could induce decisive impeachment to the slumbering presidency of Trump. An ascending naval operation of Pentagon should at this time be submitted by Lloyd Austin to the Whitehouse for the hegemonic recalibration of America in Borneo instead of conducting bravado operations in the South China Sea and the strait of Taiwan amid the maturity of WWIII in 2024. It is the ultimatum for the readiness of colossal military operations in the Asia Pacific region. It is not the timing for business as usual as expected by the unrealistic fainthearted truce resolution of Trump to avert the looming outbreak of WWIII in the world under the longstanding colonisation of hidden civilisation on Earth.

[samacharapp]

Pakistan New Missile: Pakistan launched SMASH killer missile, how big a threat is it for India? Know here

Pakistan has successfully tested its indigenous ship-launched ballistic missile, which is capable of attacking sea and land. However, India is ready to counter this missile. 

Pakistan New Missile: Pakistan recently successfully tested an indigenous ship-launched ballistic missile with a range of 350 kilometers. This missile is capable of hitting both land and sea targets. This test is part of Pakistan's effort to strengthen its strategic capabilities and strike a military balance with India. However, the Indian Navy is already prepared to face such threats.

Pakistan has launched an indigenously developed ship-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) after decades. It is a ship-launched ballistic missile. This missile can strike up to a distance of 350 kilometers. This capability can be a threat to India's western region and Indian Navy ships. This missile can be launched from ships deployed in the sea, which enables it to attack marine and terrestrial targets with precision.

Strategic importance

Ballistic missiles from ship-launched platforms provide Pakistan with a second-strike capability in case of war. This is a new strategic challenge for India.

Danger for India?

Pakistan's new missile can target Indian Navy's warships and coastal areas. Especially in the Arabian Sea, Indian ships and important economic assets can be at risk. This missile of Pakistan can have the capability to carry nuclear weapons. Due to which it can prove to be more dangerous. This missile can carry out precise attacks on both land and sea, due to which the security of India's maritime border can become the biggest challenge.

How is India's preparation?

India has state-of-the-art air defense systems like the S-400 Triumph, which can intercept ballistic missiles. The Indian Navy's submarines and ships are far more advanced and well-equipped than Pakistan. Nuclear submarine platforms like INS Arihant make India capable and strong at sea.

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KSS-III Batch-II KSS-III Batch-II submarine scale model on the ROK Navy booth at MADEX 2023. Note the 10 VLS. Displacement: 3,600t (surfaced), 4,000t (submerged) Length: 89.4m Beam: 9.7m Draught: 7.6m Weapons: 6 x 533mm ATP torpedo tubes Babcock International WHLS (K761 Tiger Shark, C-Star-III), Submarine Launched Mobile Mine (SLMM), 10 x VLS (Hyunmoo-IV-4) Propulsion System: Diesel-Electric AIP,3 x Rolls-Royce MTU 12V 4000 U83 Diesel Engine, 4 x Bumhan PH1 Fuel Cell Battery: lithium-ion battery Speed: 20 knots (submerged) Range: 18,500km (surfaced)

South Korea to develop new VLS and SLBM for its Submarines - Naval News

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ICBM

ICBM, in full Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, Land-based, nuclear-armed ballistic missile with a range of more than 3,500 miles (5,600 km). Only the United States, Russia, and China field land-based missiles of this range. The first ICBMs were deployed by the Soviet Union in 1958; the United States followed the next year and China some 20 years later. The principal U.S. ICBM is the silo-launched Minuteman missile. Submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) with ranges comparable to ICBMs include the Trident missile, deployed by the United States and Britain, and several systems deployed by Russia, China, and France.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/technology/ICBM

Revelations 8:10–11

[angrybell]

US land based nukes, Minuteman III, are at the end of their useable life for a variety of reasons. We think they will work. There are 400 in silos with another 50 kept ready to be deployed.

The submarine based ones should be ok. The SLBM of choice for the US is the Trident II D5, which began to be deployed in the 1990s. The USN did an upgrade program on them starting in 2002. We have around 300 missiles. Because they can have MIRV warheads the USN has about 1900 or so warheads to mount on them.

The Trident is a new design based on technology from the late 90s and early 2000s and can be intregrated into modern systems fairly easily. The Minuteman III is based off tech from the 1970s. The operating system still requires floppy disks (as in the old 5.25 inch not the ones that are used as the scar icon on a lot of office programs).

There is currently a program to produce new ICBMs for the USAF. Right now it’s designated the LGM-35A Sentine. It’s supposed to be start reliving the first missiles in 2029.

The US also maintains gravity nuclear bombs. Mostly it’s the B-61, which was originally fielded in 1968 and has been upgraded a number of times since then. The Biden Administration decided to phase another model, B-83, in favor of an upgrade to the B-61 to B-61 mod 12 version. The B-61 can be carried on the B-2, B-21, B-52, F-35, F-15E, and F-16. So even if all else fails, you can take an F-16 and lob a few.

The USAF also has an air launched nuclear cruise missile, the AGM-86. These are getting older since they were first deployed in the Reagan administration. There’s about 500 right now. The USAF looks like it’s going to replace those with a nuclear variant of long-range standoff cruise missile (LRSO). The B-52 is the primary system that uses them right now but the ISAF says it’s now going to be shared by the B-21.

TL/DR: US retains a credible nuclear arsenal and is the midsts of replacing old weapons with newer ones.

“Careful everyone, if Ukraine keeps defending itself, Russia will use its nukes and start WW3!!!”

The Russian nukes in question:

[skyfire85]

-A YP6B-1 on beaching gear . | Photo: US Navy/Martin Photograph

FLIGHTLINE: 125 - MARTIN P6M SEAMASTER

The P6M SeaMaster was one of a group of seaplanes proposed in the early 1950s to allow the US Navy to have a strategic nuclear bombing role.

In April of 1951, the US Navy proposed creating a “Seaplane Striking Force” that could participate in both nuclear and conventional warfare, as well as reconnaissance and mine-laying. Being seaplanes, this force would be mobile, and would have essentially unlimited and indestructible runways, and would (coincidentally) allow the Navy to claw back some prestige from the USAF’s SAC, which monopolized the US nuclear strategic role with its fleets of B-29, B-36, B-47, B-50 and B-52 bombers after WWII.

Convair, a merger of Consolidated and Vultee) supplied two fighter concepts to the SFF, the XFY-1 Pogo VTOL and the XF2Y-1 Sea Dart seaplane, as well as the XP5Y patrol bomber flying boat, which was later reworked into the R3Y-1 Tradewind cargo/troop carrier. All four planes suffered from either airframe or engine issues (or both) however, and none were successful.

-Composite photo of Convair's SSF aircraft . | Graphic: Justin Gibb

The Glenn L Martin Company, meanwhile, submitted a swept wing, jet-powered flying boat which shared the all-flying T tail of its XB-51 bomber, as well as the rotating bomb bay which was practically a Martin signature. Power was to be provided by the P&W J58 (yeah, same as the OXCART/YF-12/SR-71), though the (much) less powerful Allison J71-A-4 engines were used on the initial XP6M-1 prototypes.

-The first XP6M-1 being rolled out . | Photo: Martin/USN photo

The first flight of the XP6M-1 was on 14 July 1955, and test flights showed promise, however they also showed that the engines were placed too close to the fuselage, and that engaging the afterburners would scorch the plane. The first SeaMaster was destroyed on 7 December 1955 (seriously, not a good date for the USN), when the controls malfunctioned and the horizontal tail went full up. The airplane broke apart at 5,000 feet after being subjected to a 9 g outside loop, crashing into the Potomac River and killing the crew of four.

-An XP6M-1 in flight, circa 1955 . | Photo: Martin/US Navy

The second XP6M-1 first flew on 18 May 1956, but crashed on 9 November after an elevator jack failed at 21,000 feet, putting the plane into a nose up climb similar to the accident that claimed the first SeaMaster. The crew were unable to bring the nose back down, and ejected.

-A YP6M-1 taking off . | Photo: Martin/US Navy

The modified YP6M-1 first flew in January 1958, followed by five more. At this point, testing was moved to Harvey Point, and the aircraft were fitted with test versions of the full combat suite, and were used for bombing, mine laying and recon evals. This test phase revealed severe issues with the -1, including reliability issues with the J71 engines, spray ingestion at higher weights, and a tendency to porpoise at certain trim settings. At this point, the P6M-1 program was cut, and Martin and the Navy began work on an improved version.

The P6M-2 would be an operational aircraft, and featured a switch to P&W J75 engines, an aerial refueling probe as well as a buddy refueling system, improved avionics and a redesigned canopy for better visibility. The first was rolled out early in 1959, and three were built by that summer. The -2 aircraft were quick, capable of Mach 0.9 on the deck, and ruggedly built, with skin thicknesses of over 1 inch at the roots. The change in engines however had induced serious control and maneuverability issues, with the new airplanes experiencing compressibility above Mach 0.8, resulting in rapid changes in directional trim, severe buffeting, and wing drop which required high control inputs to counter. Martin was sure it could iron out these issues, but in August the Navy informed Martin that the P6M was canceled, and that all development work was to cease. The program was behind schedule and over budget, and by this point the Navy was no longer interested in the SFF; with the USS George Washington, armed with the first SLBMs, set to enter service in December of that year, the time for the SeaMaster had run out.

-A P6M-2 loaded on to the beaching trolley . | Photo: Martin/US Navy

-Final production model SeaMaster, showing "buddy" refueling drogue . | Photo: Martin/US Navy

-The Sea Masters outside the Martin factory. | Photo: Martin/US Navy

Martin attempted to interest airlines in the P6M, offering an enlarged passenger version called the Model 307 ‘SeaMistress’, but there were no takers, and the remaining P6Ms were scrapped.

-Models of the Model 307 Sea Mistress and P6M Sea Master . | Photo: Glenn L Martin Aircraft

-Artist’s impression of the Model 307 . | Illustration: Glenn L Martin Aircraft

The SeaMaster was Martin’s last airplane, which abandoned aircraft for missiles and electronics. Martin merged with American Marietta Corp in 1961, forming Martin Marietta, which built missiles and rockets, including the AGM-12 Bullpup, the Titan family of ICBMs and space launch vehicles, the Atlas launch vehicles (acquired from General Dynamics) and the Viking, Magellan, and Mars Polar Lander space probes. Martin Marietta also produced paints, dyes, metallurgical products, construction materials, and other goods, as well as the Monorail (there should be a link to the Simpsons' Monorail song here, but the Hyphen doesn't handle YT links right to do that...) for Walt Disney World. The company was acquired by Lockheed in 1995, though it later spun off Martin Marietta Materials as a separate company.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

In the case of the E-6s, “it's a message to the small group of adversaries with SLBMs and ICBMs,” Hogan noted. The Pentagon apparently wants atomic-armed rivals of the United States—Russia, China and North Korea—to know that America’s nuclear command system is intact, even if the commander-in-chief might be sick.

U.S. imperialism never quarantines.

[stone-cold-groove]

A page from UNIVAC Defense System’s CP-890 shipboard computer brochure - 1967.

[usafphantom2]

SR-71 could sneak into a denied area, get the take and leave before our enemy even knew we were there 🇺🇸🇺🇸

The SR-71 was never successfully intercepted by surface-to-air missile or aircraft. It had a state-of-the-art electronic defensive system which would defeat an incoming missile’s homing and steering. Detectors on board would alert the crew of a missile launch instantly and, since the SR-71 did not normally fly at its maximum speed or altitude, the aircraft’s defense was simultaneously to jam the missile’s guidance while accelerating, climbing, and turning with 45º of bank. No surface-to-air missile could out-turn, thus hit, an SR-71, a fact demonstrated many times, especially during the Vietnam War. Attempts to shoot down an SR-71 continued until August 25, 1981, which was the last time an enemy (North Korea) fired a surface-to-air missile at an SR-71; that mission was flown by Maury Rosenberg, pilot, and Ed McKim, Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO).

We carried an array of sophisticated sensors and recorders which could glean reconnaissance data with cameras capable of high-quality photographs horizon-to-horizon. We also had radar imagery capable of one-foot resolution. This was the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System (ASARS), which could deliver readable radar pictures night or day, bad weather or clear. I’m no photo interpreter, but even I could tell what was pictured. The SR-71 also carried electronic intelligence (ELINT) systems which are still classified. We advertised that the SR-71, within 24 hours notification, could be over any target on earth and be capable of surveying 100,000 square miles of terrain each hour. It was no idle boast.

I’ll summarize the importance of the SR-71 missions by quoting Paul Crickmore, noted aviation historian and Blackbird author, in a letter to me.

“In theatre, the SR-71 proved the concept of high-Mach, high-altitude flight, to obtain vital aerial reconnaissance. The SR-71 regularly conducted reconnaissance missions in the skies over North Vietnam – particularly around Hanoi in 1968-70 which at the time, was the most highly defended area on the planet.”

“The Blackbirds provided superior flexibility compared to satellites, time after time, specific examples—Yom Kippur War 1973, Yemen 1979, Cuba 1977—1990, Lebanon October 1983 (following the truck-bomb attack killing over 240 US Marines), Libya 1986, The Persian Gulf 1987, but perhaps most importantly, the on-going monitoring of Soviet nuclear submarine fleets for the US Navy—particularly the Northern Fleet with their submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), capable of hitting large areas of the United States, as well as all Allied Countries.”

BC Bredette B C Thomas

Posted by Linda Sheffield

@Habubrats71 via X

[nicholassabalos]

From beneath the sea....

PACIFIC OCEAN (February 12, 2020) -- An unarmed Trident II (D5LE) submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) launches from submerged United States Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Maine (SSBN 741) off the coast of San Diego, CA.

                                            USS Maine (SSBN 741)

The successful missile launch demonstrated the readiness of USS Maine’s (SSBN 741) strategic weapon system and crew following the submarine’s recently-completed major overhaul.

When armed, the Trident II missile pictured here emerging from beneath the sea can carry up to 14 massive long-range independently- (and very precisely-) targeted nuclear weapons....and is a key element of the U.S. strategic nuclear triad....strengthening U.S. strategic deterrence.

(In plain language....these missiles are so powerful, accurate and nasty....they are designed to prevent war....and almost demand peace.)

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                                   United States Strategic Nuclear Triad

The pluses (left columns) and minuses (right columns) of the United States nuclear triad -- manned bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM).

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>>Note: Everything discussed above is from UNCLASSIFIED sources, readily found in public forums.

>>Top photo: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Thomas Gooley, USN

[spaceexp]

Why Submarines for North Korea's Missiles

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 02, 2019 The recent test launch of a North Korean Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) could be framed as just another event in a recent surge of new weapons test by the state. North Korea has conducted a flurry of missile launches in recent months, marking the debut of some new weapons that could possibly avoid Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) systems in nearby states. But all of these earlier Full article

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Dosan Ahn Chang-ho class submarines are the first submarines in the ROK Navy to be mostly built with indigenous technologies (76% local content according to DAPA). These submarines are equipped with 6x VLS (Vertical Launching System) cells, capable of carrying and launching Hyunmoo-IV-4 SLBM (Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile), derivative of the successful Hyunmoo-missile family.    The submarine is 83.5m in length, 9.6m in width and 14.7m in height. It displaces 3,358 tons on the surface and 3,705 tons when fully submerged. It can sail at the speed of 20 knots, with a maximum cruise range of around 10,000 nautical miles. It also features AIP (Air-Independent Propulsion) system that allows the vessel to operate underwater more quietly for up to a few weeks of time.    Another notable feature of this submarine is the installation of six ATP (Air-Turbine Pump) torpedo launchers that have been previously installed on Royal Navy’s Astute-class and Spanish Navy’s S-80 Plus-class submarines. Babcock International, a British enterprise had a big role in implementing their technologies on KSS-III Batch 1 vessels.

South Korea's 2nd KSS III Submarine Commissioned with ROK Navy - Naval News

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

After Sun Myung Moon’s help, North Korea Launch an SLBM Missile on October 2, 2019

▲ On October 2, North Korea conducted an underwater launch of its new Pukguksong-3 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) off the coast of Wonsan. The two-stage, solid-fuel missile flew on a steep, upward trajectory, reaching a peak altitude of 950 km, and landing about 450 km from the launch point. If the Pukguksong-3 had used a standard trajectory, it would have overflown Japan and covered 1,900 to 2,000 km, making it the longest-range solid-fuel missile North Korea has tested to date.

Full story of the launch: https://www.38north.org/2019/10/melleman100319/

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How did Sun Myung Moon help?

Robert Parry: “The Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s business empire, which includes the right-wing Washington Times, paid millions of dollars to North Korea’s communist leaders in the early 1990s when the hard-line government needed foreign currency to finance its weapons programs, according to U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) documents.

The payments included a $3 million “birthday present” to current communist leader Kim Jong Il and offshore payments amounting to “several tens of million dollars” to the previous communist dictator, Kim Il Sung, the documents said.

Moon apparently was seeking a business foothold in North Korea, but the transactions also raised potential legal questions for Moon, who appears to have defied U.S. embargos on trade and financial relations with the Pyongyang government. Those legal questions were never pursued, however, apparently because of Moon’s powerful political connections within the Republican power structure of Washington, including financial and political ties to the Bush family.

Besides making alleged payments to North Korea’s communist leaders, the 86-year-old founder of the South Korean-based Unification Church has funneled large sums of money, possibly millions of dollars, to former President George H.W. Bush.

One well-placed former leader of Moon’s Unification Church told me that the total earmarked for former President Bush was $10 million. The father of the current U.S. President has declined to say how much Moon’s organization actually paid him for speeches and other services in Asia, the United States and South America. ...

In 1988, when then-Vice President Bush was trailing early in the presidential race, the Times spread a baseless rumor that the Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis had undergone psychiatric treatment. The Moon-affiliated American Freedom Coalition also distributed millions of pro-Bush flyers.

The elder George Bush personally expressed his gratitude. When Wesley Pruden was appointed The Washington Times’ editor-in-chief in 1991, Bush invited Pruden to a private White House lunch “just to tell you how valuable the Times has become in Washington, where we read it every day.” [Washington Times, May 17, 1992].

Moon’s Vatican

While Bush was hosting Pruden in the White House, Pruden’s boss was opening his financial and business channels to North Korea. According to the DIA, Moon’s North Korean deal was ambitious and expensive.

“There was an agreement regarding economic cooperation for the reconstruction of KN’s [North Korea’s] economy which included establishment of a joint venture to develop tourism at Kimkangsan, KN [North Korea]; investment in the Tumangang River Development; and investment to construct the light industry base at Wonsan, KN. It is believed that during their meeting Mun [Moon] donated 450 billion yen to KN,” one DIA report said.

In late 1991, the Japanese yen traded at about 130 yen to the U.S. dollar, meaning Moon’s investment would have been about $3.5 billion, if the DIA information is correct.

Moon’s aide Pak denied that Moon’s investments ever approached that size. Though Pak did not give an overall figure, he said the initial phase of an automobile factory was in the range of $3 million to $6 million.

The DIA depicted Moon’s business plans in North Korea as much grander. The DIA valued the agreement for hotels in Pyongyang and the resort in Kumgang-san, alone, at $500 million. The plans also called for creation of a kind of Vatican City covering Moon’s birthplace.

“In consideration of Mun’s [Moon's] economic cooperation, Kim [Il Sung] granted Mun a 99-year lease on a 9 square kilometer parcel of land located in Chongchu, Pyonganpukto, KN. Chongchu is Mun's birthplace and the property will be used as a center for the Unification Church. It is being referred to as the Holy Land by Unification Church believers and Mun [h]as been granted extraterritoriality during the life of the lease.”

Moon, North Korea & the Bushes By Robert Parry (Originally published on October 11, 2000) LINK below

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FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) – Rev. Moon’s Submarines, Sold to Kim Jong-Il, Empower a Nuke Threat to the West Coast by John Gorenfeld (Where in Washington, D.C. Is Sun Myung Moon? 8/3/04).

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, which controls the right-wing Washington Times, directly helped North Korea obtain the means of threatening the continental United States with nuclear weapons, government documents indicate. Jane’s Defense Weekly (8/4/04), as summarized by Reuters (8/3/04), is reporting: North Korea is deploying new land- and sea-based ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads and may have sufficient range to hit the United States.... The two new systems appeared to be based on a decommissioned Soviet submarine-launched ballistic missile, the R-27.... Communist North Korea had acquired the know-how during the 1990s from Russian missile specialists and by buying 12 former Soviet submarines which had been sold for scrap metal but retained key elements of their missile launch systems. 

And how did North Korea get these submarines? Gorenfeld calls attention to Defense Intelligence Agency documents originally obtained by investigative reporter Robert Parry through the Freedom of Information Act: In Jan 94, a Japanese trading company “Touen Hoji,” in Suginami-Ku, Tokyo, purchased 12 F and G class submarines from the Russian Pacific fleet headquarters. These submarines were then sold to a KN [North Korean] trading company. Although this transaction garnered a great deal of coverage in the Japanese press, it was not disclosed at the time that Touen Shoji is an affiliate of the Unification Church [now known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification].

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The first paragraph is probably from Jane’s Defence Weekly - 4 August 2004 edition

“...The second event occurred during September 1993, when the Korean People’s Navy (KPN) signed a contract with the Toen Trading Company of Tokyo to buy 12 decommissioned Russian Foxtrot-class (Project 641) and Golf II-class (Project 629A) submarines for scrap metal. The Golf IIs were equipped to carry three R-21 (SS-N-5 Sark/Serb) SLBMs, although neither the missiles nor the electronic firing systems were included with the scrapped vessels. Due to factors such as the time and expense of their removal, these boats retained significant elements of the missile launch system, including their launch tubes and stabilisation subsystems. This technology, in combination with the R-27 design, ...”

from Jane’s Defence Weekly - 4 August 2004 edition “... provided the KPN [Korean People’s Navy] with elements crucial to the subsequent development of a submarine or ship-mounted ballistic missile system. ... It is unknown if the DPRK [North Korea] has sold, or attempted to sell, this new system to any of its previous ballistic missile customers. Iran, however, would appear to be the ideal customer for both the land and sea-based versions, given its requirement for a system capable of striking Israel from the security of its own territory.”

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Evidence that Moonies Jump-Started the North Korean Nuclear Program that Now Threatens the US

Sun Myung Moon’s dealings with North Korea

Moon, North Korea & the Bushes By Robert Parry   (Originally published on October 11, 2000)

Dear Leader’s Paper Moon by John Gorenfeld

The Moons with Kim Il-sung. What was the price for this meeting?

Images show North Korea’s ‘submarine ballistic missile programme’

SAR Imagery Reveals the Presence of Concealed Submarine at North Korea’s Sinpo Naval Base

North Korea’s Submarine Ballistic Missile Program Moves Ahead

Sun Myung Moon was building an “Interreligious” facility in North Korea in 2004

Sun Myung Moon was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002

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Run Silent Run Deep

Meet the Ohio-Class: America's Nuclear Doomsday Submarines

Nine years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Ishirō Honda’s Godzilla depicted a monster awakened from the depths of the ocean to wreak havoc on Japanese cities. A giant fire-breathing reptile, however, was less horrifying than what was to come. In less than a decade’s time, there would be dozens of real undersea beasts capable of destroying multiple cities at a time. I’m referring, of course, to ballistic-missile submarines, or “boomers” in U.S. Navy parlance.

The most deadly of the real-life kaiju prowling the oceans today are the fourteen Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarines, which carry upwards of half of the United States’ nuclear arsenal onboard.

If you do the math, the Ohio-class boats may be the most destructive weapon system created by humankind. Each of the 170-meter-long vessels can carry twenty-four Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) which can be fired from underwater to strike at targets more than seven thousand miles away depending on the load.

As a Trident II reenters the atmosphere at speeds of up to Mach 24, it splits into up to eight independent reentry vehicles, each with a 100- or 475-kiloton nuclear warhead. In short, a full salvo from an Ohio-class submarine—which can be launched in less than one minute—could unleash up to 192 nuclear warheads to wipe twenty-four cities off the map. This is a nightmarish weapon of the apocalypse.

The closest competitor to the Ohio-class submarine is the Russia’s sole remaining Typhoon-class submarine, a larger vessel with twenty ballistic-missile launch tubes. However, China, Russia, India, England and France all operate multiple ballistic-missile submarines with varying missile armaments—and even a few such submarines would suffice to annihilate the major cities in a developed nation.