The U.S. Navy has deployed special, radar-hunting warplanes to South Korea to train for a possible air war against North Korea.
The five EA-18G Growlers have joined more than 200 American and South Korean planes and tens of thousands of military personnel for a five-day annual war game known as Vigilant Ace.
The two-person crews of the twin-engine EA-18Gs are responsible for arguably the most dangerous mission in all of aerial warfare. Officially called “suppression of enemy air defenses,” the mission involves clearing a path through sophisticated air defenses so that other planes can safely strike their targets.
The EA-18Gs carry sensors for detecting radars’ emissions, jammers for interfering with the sensors’ functions, and radar-homing missiles to destroy them. But to take out enemy air defenses, the Growler crews have to get close—and that puts them directly in harm’s way. In North Korea, the crews would face a growing arsenal of radars and surface-to-air missiles based on deadly Russian and Chinese designs.
The Boeing-made Growlers arrived during the first week of December at Osan air base, around 50 miles from the border with North Korea. The EA-18Gs, from squadron VAQ-134 based in Washington State, were in the middle of a six-month training rotation with two squadrons of U.S. Air Force F-16s flying from an air base in Japan.
I think it is safe to say that the North Koreans have made more progress with their nuclear weapons program in the first year of the Trump presidency than they did in the last three administrations combined.
Nothing like having a thin skinned megalomaniac in office poking at another thin skinned megalomaniac to really speed up the production of weaponry, don't you think?
You know I keep thinking of all of those idiots who voted fro Jill Stein because they had been convinced, possibly by the Russians, that Hillary Clinton was going to take this country into another war.
Perhaps THEY should be the first ones drafted and sent to die in this one.
Sphincter will not be happy until he does start something. Widespread criticism, like the petulant child, "oh yeah? Well, I'll show YOU."
ReplyDeleteWhat do any of them care? We've already seen in one short year how much our "leaders" care about the average American, and none of their relatives/kids are going to be in the crossfire maimed or dead, so amp it up to fever pitch! FOOLS.
They and their kids and grandkids.
ReplyDeleteI still think North Korea is going to wait for the Olympics.what better time to hold the world hostage.
ReplyDelete1st strike will be the last-So that is a strong possibilty if the tOO rockum Sockum dict-tards hold out that long...
DeleteI would nominate Susan Sarandon's two sons with Tim Robbins to be drafted first. She's still spreading lies about Hillary Clinton.
ReplyDeleteIn an interview with The Guardian on November 26, 2017, Susan Sarandon said, "I thought Hillary was very dangerous. If she'd won, we'd be at war".
TR" You're staring some kind of frightening thing down. It's when you pass 40, inherently we double our age when we think about life. At 40 you can imagine 80. You start thinking about how many years you've got left, and you start thinking, 'What the hell am I doing here?'"
Delete""You're only ever as good as your last box office receipt. In fact, you might have a really good Friday when the movie does very well, so you better go out Friday and Saturday nights, because by Monday, you're yesterday's news."
""Yeah, I'm open. My sexual orientation is up for grabs, I guess you could say," she joked."
"Back to-get-her A~GAIN.
http://www.eonline.com/news/862664/susan-sarandon-and-tim-robbins-reunite-after-2009-split
The last several Presidents have kicked the can down the road on the North Korea problem, only to be further exasperated by the rise of the the new young dictator. I'm not a Trump supporter or fan, but this day was coming no matter who was in office. You don't just overnight develop nuclear weapons small enough to fit on an ICBM, and all of a sudden develop ICBMs capable of carrying nuclear weapons, in a year. Kim's first order of business has been to become a nuclear power ever since he took the reigns after daddy in 2011. And he has steadily been working towards that end ever since.
ReplyDeleteMe and 9 other family members have tickets for two weeks at the Pyeongchang Olympics in February and we are rethinking our travel to the area because it is so close to NoKo.
ReplyDeleteHotels are nonrefundable but half of airfare is at this point. Haven't purchased but a few event tickets so far, opening, closing and some downhill ski and skating, have email into Olympic committee on refunds for those.
Thinking perhaps Olympics in a war zone won't be too awesome? This will be the first time in 30 years that our family hasn't done winter Olympics but damn, we've never had to deal with war! Sochi was weird not only because it was really warm but because of the Russian tensions with Crimea but it wasn't actually war, this on is probably going to be a pass for many.
Thanks Trump, you asswipe.
"This will be the first time in 30 years that our family hasn't done winter Olympics"
DeleteWinter Olympics around the world for the last 30 years, gosh sounds like life is really difficult for you and your family lol. Maybe a new Bentley could ease the pain.
BTW you do know that NK and SK never officially ended the war don't you? They have had essentially a long standing cease fire, but the war was never ended. And that the young leader Kim Jun has been flirting with re-sparking war with the west ever since he took over the reigns in 2011, long before Trump?