Whoa ... apparently, the wankersphere (or at least the Crazy-Assed Racist Redneck part of it) is all a-flutter over something that went right:
It was a picture-perfect pre-dawn Wednesday and a picture-perfect launch at White Sands Missile Range.
Hundreds of miles above southern New Mexico, it was a picture-perfect impact between two missiles...
The pre-dawn art show was the result of the third of five tests planned at White Sands Missile Range to determine the effectiveness of THAAD — Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile. And military officials said the test went better than they could have hoped.
"This was phenomenal," said U.S. Army Col. Charles Driessnack, the project manager for the Missile Defense Agency's THAAD program. "It performed as expected."
"All that's left to do," continued Driessnack, "is to force North Korea to launch their missile attacks against the U.S. from White Sands early in the morning, and we are so going to kick their asses. Seriously."
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After the gazillions spent on that program, it's about time they got soemthing to actually work - if, in fact, it did.
They should have called the program THUD, because that's what's happened every other time they've tested it.
And if the roadkill fans think they're now protected from N Korea, well, let them live in their little bubble of unreality. Otherwise, their heads might collectively explode and then the US might see that as an act of aggression and launch a missile at them! ;)
"This was phenomenal, it performed as expected." That's a pretty good commentary on the US these days, if taken ironically.
"As it got to the second firing stage, red fire bloomed out of the leading edge of the missile."
So the target missiles are still flaring up, putting out signals, yelling over here, over here! How useful as a real-world simulation
demonstrated the THAAD's ability to "completely destroy that warhead so that no chemical or nuclear residue would contaminate areas" below the explosion, Driessnack said.
This part, aside from the orgasmic article tone as a whole, made me laugh. The interceptor missiles are apparently destroying targets at an atomic level now (to destroy nuclear material)
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