#slbm systems

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

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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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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

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-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.

[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

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

[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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👆 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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Posted by Linda Sheffield Miller

[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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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

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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.

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"As he recounted it to me, Brzezinski was awakened at three in the morning by [military assistant William] Odom, who told him that some 250 Soviet missiles had been launched against the United States. Brzezinski knew that the President's decision time to order retaliation was from three to seven minutes. Thus he told Odom he would stand by for a further call to confirm Soviet launch and the intended targets before calling the President. Brzezinski was convinced we had to hit back and told Odom to confirm that the Strategic Air Command was launching its planes. When Odom called back, he reported that 2,200 missiles had been launched?it was an all-out attack. One minute before Brzezinski intended to call the President, Odom called a third time to say that other warning systems were not reporting Soviet launches. Sitting alone in the middle of the night, Brzezinski had not awakened his wife, reckoning that everyone would be dead in half an hour. It had been a false alarm. Someone had mistakenly put military exercise tapes into the computer system." -- Robert M. Gates. From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How they Won the Cold War (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996),114.

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The behind-the-scenes story became more complicated because the Soviet leadership was worried enough to lodge a complaint with Washington. The Cold War tensions had already been exacerbated during the previous year and this could not help (nor could an impending Kremlin decision to invade Afghanistan). On 14 November, party leader Leonid Brezhnev sent a message via Ambassador Anatoly Dobyrnin expressing his concern about the incident which was "fraught with a tremendous danger." What especially concerned Brezhnev were press reports that top U.S. leaders had not been informed at the time about the warning. The Defense Department and Brzezinski took hold of the reply to Brezhnev's message which senior State Department adviser Marshall Shulman saw as "gratuitously snotty" (for example, language about the "inaccurate and unacceptable" Soviet message). The Soviets were indeed miffed because they later replied that the U.S. message was not "satisfactory" because it had taken a polemical approach to Moscow's "profound and natural concern."

About seven months later, U.S. warning systems generated three more false alerts. One occurred on 28 May 1980; it was a minor harbinger of false alerts on 3 and 6 June 1980. According to the Pentagon, what caused the malfunctions in June 1980 was a failed 46¢ micro-electronic integrated circuit ("chip") and "faulty message design." A computer at NORAD made what amounted to "typographical errors" in the routine messages it sent to SAC and the National Military Command Center (NMCC) about missile launches. While the message usually said "OOO" ICBMs or SLBMs had been launched, some of the zeroes were erroneously filled in with a 2, e.g. 002 or 200, so the message indicated that 2, then 200 SLBMs were on their way. Once the message arrived at SAC, the command took survivability measures by ordering bomber pilots and crews to their stations at alert bombers and tankers and to start the engines.

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According to Bruce Blair, writing in the early 1990s, warning system failures continued after 1980, although they did not trigger alert measures.[10] The U.S. nuclear incidents that have received the most attention have not been false warnings, but events such as the Air Force's accidental movement of nuclear-tipped cruise missiles from Minot AFB to Barksdale AFB in 2007 and the mistaken transfer of Minuteman nose-cone assemblies to Taiwan in 2006. In any event, more needs to be learned about the problem of false warnings during and after the Cold War and pending declassification requests and appeals may shed further light on this issue.

It’s not just the one time with Stanislov Petrov

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The triggering shutdown of energy pipelines is likely to pulverize the expansion of military infrastructure in Eastern Europe through the impact of stagflation where the recession tends to phase out the military siege of NATO in the borders of Russia. Due to the impregnated standpoint of EU to repudiate the military operations of Russia by the massively supplied high precision missile vehicles in Ukraine, the escalation of energy shutdown is necessary for the enforcement of new monetary system in Europe that the prerequisites of energy supply should be fulfilled by EU in favour of the hijacked economies under monetary colonization. However the overwhelming expansion of NATO in Asia Pacific needs to be rebalanced by signing the enactment of naval operations in discharging the hijacked territory of Borneo through bombardments. The enforcement of new monetary system must be accompanied by the tactical deterrence of SLBM as requested by Borneo. Obviously the hijacked territory of Borneo does not belong to ASEAN under the colonization of Malaysia where the naval fleets of Russia may launch its operations in Borneo for exigent independence in 2022.

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Republic of Korea Navy reportedly carried out simultaneous test launches of Hyunmoo 4-4 SLBMs from the ballistic missile submarine ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho (SSB-083) on 18 April 2022.

According to a government official, two SLBMs were launched from submerged submarine and accurately hit the target located over 400km away.

The latest test launch was part of a final series of tests prior to full operational deployment of all systems involved. The 3,800 tons and 83.5 meters-long Dosan Ahn Changho-class submarines (KSS-III Batch-I) have max speed of 20 kts and can operate for about three weeks submerged.

ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho is expected to be declared fully operational within the year. ROKS Ahn Mu (SSB-085) and ROKS Shin Chae-ho (SSB-086), 2nd and 3rd ships of the class, are currently undergoing sea trial.

Although North Korea began SLBM development much earlier than South Korea, it has yet to deploy an operational SLBM or SSB.

https://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPage.do?news_id=N1006723072