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Post by bluejay77 on Dec 3, 2012 21:19:53 GMT -5
It is commonly known in Europe, and the knowledge sometimes occurs in the media, that the Global Positioning System can be used to guide missiles, including ICBM's, Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. BTW they spell MIRV wrong in Europe: it is not a Multiple Impact Re-entry Vehicle, it is a Multiple Indepedently-Targetable Re-entry Vehicle.
The Europeans have their own GPS, which is called Galileo. The Russians have their own version of the GPS, it is called the Glonass.
Europeans have speculated in the media that the USA may interpret the existence of the Galileo as somehow militarily adversarial...... Strange. And who initially gave them the knowledge that the GPS has such a missile warfare use?
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Post by Swampy on Dec 3, 2012 21:42:31 GMT -5
It would be obvious, wouldn't it?
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Post by Sir John on Dec 4, 2012 0:57:48 GMT -5
"Europeans have speculated in the media that the USA may interpret the existence of the Galileo as somehow militarily adversarial...... Strange"
That sounds like a global warming prediction!
SJ
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Post by bluejay77 on Dec 4, 2012 14:34:39 GMT -5
"Europeans have speculated in the media that the USA may interpret the existence of the Galileo as somehow militarily adversarial...... Strange" That sounds like a global warming prediction! SJ Well that is a personality question: I don't like to make strong and definite statements when I don't know the business in question for absolutely certain. Scientists love to speculate, and present nondefinite conditional statements, and such. |
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Post by boxcar on Dec 4, 2012 16:09:42 GMT -5
>>Scientists love to speculate, and present nondefinite conditional statements, and such.<<
Specially when there is to be money made off of their statements.
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Post by bluejay77 on Dec 4, 2012 22:00:04 GMT -5
>>Scientists love to speculate, and present nondefinite conditional statements, and such.<< Specially when there is to be money made off of their statements. OK. I recall that the media source that was talking about the missile warfare use of the GPS, and the potential hostility of the Galileo, was the Finnish HELSINGIN SANOMAT newspaper. Moreover, à propos, the SUOMEN KUVALEHTI magazine ran an article about the construction of a thermonuclear explosive -- it was a fission-fusion-fission bomb. |
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Post by boxcar on Dec 4, 2012 22:27:06 GMT -5
I was thinking of global warming statements by "scientists".
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