[ RadSafe ] Was "Countdown to Zero" now Nationalist diatribe on Radsafe
Jaro Franta
jaro-10kbq at sympatico.ca
Tue Aug 17 17:28:20 CDT 2010
Don & co.,
I believe this is the story you may be referring to -- click on the link to
the illustration :
Russian Cruise Missile Can Be Packed In Cargo Containers
Aviation Week & Space Technology Apr 19 , 2010 , p. 40
Maxim Pyadushkin, Moscow
A lethal surprise could be placed in standard containers
Russia is offering a version of the Club family of cruise missiles that can
be packed in a standard cargo container and transported by ship, train or on
roadways. Versions of Club are already fitted on the Kilo-class submarine
and the Project 1135.6 frigate.
The Moscow-based Morinformsystema-AGAT, the designer of Club’s control
system, is developing the Club-K container modification. The system would be
capable of being used against naval and land targets, depending on which
versions of the Novator 3M-54 and 3M-14 missiles were included.
The Club-K uses a standard 40-ft. marine container and can be quickly and
covertly transported and installed at coastal positions, or on cargo ships,
road and rail platforms.
http://www.aviationweek.com/media/images/awst_images/large/AW_04_19_2010_155
0_L.jpg
Cruise missile systems placed in cargo containers would be very difficult to
pinpoint. Credit: MORINFORMSYSTEMA-AGAT
Valery Efremov, deputy chief designer for export products at
Morinformsystema, says the container includes a common launching module with
four missiles as well as combat-management and associated power systems.
According to Efremov, the designers have already tested major components of
Club-K. He adds that talks are underway with possible customers, but that as
yet no orders for Club-K have been placed.
The Club-K can fire three types of cruise missile: the anti-ship 3M-54TE
(SS-N-27 Sizzler), the 3M-54TE1 and the land-attack 3M-14TE (SS-N-30). All
three weapons have been developed by the Novator design bureau, a subsidiary
of Almaz-Antey.
Morinformsystema acts as the system integrator for Club-K as well as for the
Club-M wheel-based version, says Efremov.
Because the Club-K has no dedicated target acquisition radar, the system is
designed to receive target coordinates via a third party, which could be
another ship, aircraft or reconnaissance satellite. The combat system uses
the coordinates to determine the missile flight plan, which is then
downloaded into the weapon’s navigation system. The 3M-54TE1 has as range of
up to 300 km. (186 mi.), as does the land-attack 3M-14TE. The 3M-54TE, which
uses a rocket-boosted penetrator for the terminal stage of the engagement,
has a range of 220 km. The radar seeker of both versions of the 3M-54 is
claimed to have a maximum acquisition range of 65 km., while the export
variant of the 3M-14 has a range of 20 km.
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George,
A few months ago, there was a Russian company marketing ships designed for
at-sea missle launching. The were depicted as commercial vessels with the
missile launcher in a structure that appeared to be a shipping container.
I don't know if that marketing campaign is ongoing.
Don Kosloff
License Renewalist
Oak Harbor OH
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Mike,
It appears that the individual on the other side of this dialog either
misses your point about ship launched missiles or cannot comprehend the
concept. As you have pointed out there is no need to have precise
targeting.
A high airburst of a nuclear weapon is sufficient to produce EMP damage
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brennan, Mike (DOH)" <Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV>
To: <radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] "Countdown to Zero" disarmament movie
> Hi, Franz.
>
> I think we did not have a meeting of minds, in that I think what you
think
> I said is not what I thought I said. I will try to be clearer:
>
> 1) I do not believe it will be as easy for Iran to develop an nuclear
> explosive, let alone an nuclear warhead, let alone a nuclear warhead that
> can be launched on a missile.
> 2) I do not believe there is an inevitable link between Iran having an
> operating nuclear reactor and them producing nuclear weapons.
> 3) I believe that adequate international oversight of Iran's reactor
> operations, and the rest of their nuclear industry, should ease concerns
> about them developing nuclear weapons. Conversely, if Iran refuses to
> allow independent international oversight, that is a data point that they
> are developing nuclear weapons.
> 4) Should Iran succeed in developing a nuclear warhead that can be
> delivered by ballistic missile, Iran becomes a credible threat to any
> country they are at odds with. This is because they have already
> demonstrated the ability to launch ballistic missiles from ships (it
isn't
> very hard.) While making a missile that can hit even a city-size target
> from a 1,000 km is very hard, making a missile that can put a package
over
> a continent is relatively simple. The electromagnetic pulse of such a
> device would be devastating. The retaliation would be worse.
> 5) I do not see any viable paths for the United States and the rest of
the
> international community to pursue, other than continuing to pressure Iran
> to allow international oversight. I do not believe that military action
> has a high likelihood of succeeding, and would have negative consequences
> on the attacking country's relationship with the rest of the world.
> 6) I do not believe that there is any set of circumstances in which the
> Iranian government could use a nuclear weapon and "win", in that I
believe
> that should they use such a weapon the one or more of the countries with
> many more and much more sophisticated nuclear weapons would consider
> themselves to be in a "weapons free" situation, and Iran as a political
> unit would cease to exist. I am not convinced that the current Iranian
> leadership completely accepts this premise.
>
> If I had a suggestion about what should be done about Iran, I'd make it,
> but at the moment I'd be satisfied for all parties just to acknowledge
the
> world as it is, rather than as they think it should be.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Franz Schönhofer [mailto:franz.schoenhofer at chello.at]
> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 10:54 AM
> To: Brennan, Mike (DOH); radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu
> Subject: AW: [ RadSafe ] "Countdown to Zero" disarmament movie
>
> Mike,
>
> If, should,...... Is this a reasonable reason to start all kind of
> retaliation?
>
> Come on! Anyone, who - like me - knows a little about nuclear bombs,
about
> the problems to deliver them over tens of thousands of mile, can only
> bitterly laugh about the US propaganda.
>
> Why is this propaganda still deliverd? Why does the USA still use these
> falsified informations? And in this context much more imporatant: Why is
> it
> distributed on RADSAFE?
>
> Everybody, not only in Austria, but also in the USA should know, that
news
> are manipulated (very polite version of "falsified") and this should be
> taken into account - also at RADSAFE and especially RADSAFErs, who
> distribute hearsay like recently distributed by a few.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Franz
>
> Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
> MinRat i.R.
> Habicherg. 31/7
> A-1160 Wien/Vienna
> AUSTRIA
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] Im Auftrag von Brennan, Mike
> (DOH)
> Gesendet: Montag, 16. August 2010 18:53
> An: radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu
> Betreff: Re: [ RadSafe ] "Countdown to Zero" disarmament movie
>
> Actually, should Iran be able to obtain or produce a nuclear warhead
> capable of being launched on a missile (a seriously non-trivial
> technical achievement, even when compared to the difficulty of making a
> nuclear explosive device), Iran becomes a credible threat to the United
> States. Iran has developed the ability to launch ballistic missiles
> from ships (not a particularly difficult task, particularly if your
> targeting parameters are "east-ish"). A single very high altitude
> nuclear explosion over the continental US would produce an EMP whose
> effects are almost impossible to calculate.
>
> That being said, we are nothing like at a place where panic is the best
> option. As we as a community have been telling the general public for
> years, nuclear reactors do not equal nuclear bombs, either as reactors
> exploding or spent fuel being easily turned into nuclear weapons.
> International oversight of Iranian reactor operations should be able to
> spot if materials and facilities are diverted for weapons use. If the
> inspectors are kicked out, that will be an important data point.
>
> As for more direct action; at this point I don't see any realistic
> options. Any type of preemptive military action would be difficult to
> accomplish, and have serious international ramifications. Speaking as
> someone who was out at the pointy end during the Cold War, saber
> rattling seldom improves things.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Steven Dapra
> Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 7:17 PM
> To: radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] "Countdown to Zero" disarmament movie
>
> Aug. 15
>
> The Europeans can fight their own battles. Iran poses no
> threat to the United States.
>
> Steven Dapra
>
>
>
> At 04:44 AM 8/15/2010, Demetrios Okkalides wrote:
>>Of course. The US had to use everything at its disposal to win the war
> and
>>the first obligation of any president is to his own people.
>>
>>My remark referred to a reality not to a moral view. That is why, as
> much as
>>I would hate to see an Iran with a nuclear weapon which could threaten
>>Europe, I still see their point of view. It is this principle of
> nuclear
>>deterrence that drives them since now they feel vulnerable against
> Israel or
>>the US. If things come to that, they know that they can not deter a
> possible
>>nuclear attack.
>>
>>I quite agree with your "bottom line". The nukes are here to stay and
> it is
>>up to all of us to make them as safe as possible since they are
> necessary
>>for the well being of modern societies. The solution to humanity's
> problems
>>does not lie in the past but in the future with new, better, safer
>>technology. Of course there will be risks but we have to deal with
> them.
>>
>>
>>
>>Demetrios Okkalides
>>THEAGENEION Anticancer Hospital
>>Thessaloniki
>>Greece
>
> [edit]
>
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