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The 18-strong team of Russian, British and Norwegian divers are using underwater blow-torches to cut two holes through the Kursk's tough double-steel hulls 108m (355ft) below the surface, in cold Arctic waters
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: facedye
No,it doesn't. There is still Congressional oversight of the black projects, which means that they have to account for,and report the money. They don't have to say what the program it's going to is. They simply say that it's for R&D, or procurement, without giving program names or numbers.
originally posted by: BigLes
Interesting thread, I'd just like to try and clear up a couple of facts that the OP and others have mistakenly taken a couple of liberties with.
1. The Kursk carried Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles, not ICBM's. Do not confuse the two they are very, very different.
2. The photo the OP used of a cruise missile is a P-500 (SS-N-12), not a P-700 (SS-N-19), it is however a cruise missile of similar type and likely shares similar avionics etc. The P-700 however has a different airframe with the air intake on the nose rather than underneath.
Now I might be coming across as a pedant but it is important to get facts like this right. ICBM's and cruise missiles work very differently. Cruise missiles lack the range and speed of an ICBM - and a P700 could indeed be shot down if detected.
If it is flying low it would only travelling at no more than approx Mach 1.5 and would needed to have been launched from no more than about 500-600km away, maybe less if flying the whole way at low-level. To put that in perspective the launch-site (if on land) certainly couldn't have been any further than Boston or Cincinnati - less than 1 hours flight for the missile.
How a P700 could target the Pentagon I don't know, anti-ship missiles like this are radar guided and designed to look for a metal box floating on the ocean, not a brick/concrete structure surrounded by other brick/concrete structures. These types of missile can be guided to target by Operators in an aircraft however - I believe the Russians have some of their 4 engine turbo-prop Bears equipped for this task...
Anyhow I am not sure how this helps or hinders the conspiracy the OP is thinking about here, but important to get the facts right all the same.
originally posted by: AnAbsoluteCreation
a reply to: firerescue
Listen, nothing is going to convince me that a plane hit the Pentagon. For a myriad of reasons I didn't mention because that wasn't the point of the thread.
And unless you have better credentials than this Army Intelligence General, I don't care what you have to say on topic.
AAC
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: facedye
I didn't say anything resembling that. I said there were aircraft on the east coast that were armed. I said OTHER aircraft, beyond those 4, two at Cape Cod, and two at Otis, would have been 1-2 hours getting armed, which by the way, was the comment of one of the Wing Commanders involved.
originally posted by: wmd_2008
originally posted by: AnAbsoluteCreation
a reply to: firerescue
Listen, nothing is going to convince me that a plane hit the Pentagon. For a myriad of reasons I didn't mention because that wasn't the point of the thread.
And unless you have better credentials than this Army Intelligence General, I don't care what you have to say on topic.
AAC
He might be ok when it comes to Military info but he has NO idea about structures, my first job working in the design drawing office of a STRUCTURAL STEELWORK company then on site testing components sometimes to destruction 20+ years on the technical side dealing with STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS and Architects I know a damn lot more than him about the buildings and their construction.
HE hasn't got a clue
The piloting skills of one Hani Hanjour are also rather questionable.
Also, didn't that section of the Pentagon house a certain budget office who was tasked with trying to straighten out a serious accounting error, which Rumsfeld made mention of the day previously.
So many unanswered questions about that day - no real investigation.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: facedye
No,it doesn't. There is still Congressional oversight of the black projects, which means that they have to account for,and report the money. They don't have to say what the program it's going to is. They simply say that it's for R&D, or procurement, without giving program names or numbers.
originally posted by: D8Tee
originally posted by: wmd_2008
originally posted by: AnAbsoluteCreation
a reply to: firerescue
Listen, nothing is going to convince me that a plane hit the Pentagon. For a myriad of reasons I didn't mention because that wasn't the point of the thread.
And unless you have better credentials than this Army Intelligence General, I don't care what you have to say on topic.
AAC
He might be ok when it comes to Military info but he has NO idea about structures, my first job working in the design drawing office of a STRUCTURAL STEELWORK company then on site testing components sometimes to destruction 20+ years on the technical side dealing with STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS and Architects I know a damn lot more than him about the buildings and their construction.
HE hasn't got a clue
Stubblebine is a crackpot. He's where 'the men who stared at goats' came from. Remote viewing and walking through walls. He has zero credibility with me on any subject.