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Remember "Thunderbirds?" - the Runway; The North Koreans are doing it!
Topic Started: Apr 28 2008, 05:12 AM (1,196 Views)
George K
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Kim Jong-il builds ‘Thunderbirds’ runway for war in North Korea

An airbase inside a mountain is the latest sign that North Korea, whose links to Syria’s nuclear programme came to light last week, is cranking up its military machine.

North Korean military engineers are completing an underground runway beneath a mountain that can protect fighter aircraft from attack until they take off at high speed through the mouth of a tunnel.

The 6,000ft runway is a few minutes’ flying time from the tense front line where the Korean People’s Army faces soldiers from the United States and South Korea.

The project was identified by an air force defector from North Korea and captured on a satellite image by Google Earth, according to reports in the South Korean press last week.

It is one of three underground fighter bases among an elaborate subterranean military infrastructure built to withstand a “shock and awe” assault in the first moments of a war, the defector said.

The runway, reminiscent of the Thunderbirds television series, highlights the strange and secretive nature of the regime that provided the expertise for a partially built nuclear reactor in Syria, film of which was released by the CIA last week.

The reactor was destroyed by Israeli aircraft last September in an operation that may have killed or injured North Koreans at the site in the remote deserts of eastern Syria.

The airstrike appears to have convinced North Korea to harden its own defences and to spend more on its military, even as it struggles to cope with a new food shortage that could see millions of its citizens go hungry. In recent days North Korea has ordered its people to be vigilant against “warmongers”.

“The prevailing situation requires the whole party and army and all the people to get fully prepared to go into action,” North Korea’s state media said on Friday.
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Dude that rocks.
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Aqua Letifer
Apr 28 2008, 08:13 AM
Dude that rocks.

Indeed!

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oops! I mean...

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Hardened or no, I suspect we could close that hole in the mountain down in short order.
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George K
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Yeah, it would seem that a GPS-directed cruise missle could quickly close the door, eh?
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Yep Just send it flying down the opening. Or a couple of those boring-in JDAMS. Whatever. Sounds like a fun test case.
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F.A.B.!

I just hope those buggers don't employ Captain Scarlet (he's indestructible!), or even worse, this guy:

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What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Mikhailoh
Apr 28 2008, 05:20 AM
Hardened or no, I suspect we could close that hole in the mountain down in short order.

Mik, you're missing the point. It's only fun to be enemies with someone if they have secret, scary gadgets, like secret lairs and underground nuclear missile silos and runways cut out of a mountain. They need to have their fun so that we can have ours.
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Aqua Letifer
Apr 28 2008, 09:32 AM
Mikhailoh
Apr 28 2008, 05:20 AM
Hardened or no, I suspect we could close that hole in the mountain down in short order.

Mik, you're missing the point. It's only fun to be enemies with someone if they have secret, scary gadgets, like secret lairs and underground nuclear missile silos and runways cut out of a mountain. They need to have their fun so that we can have ours.


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If jet fighters can take off from there then cruise missiles can land there.
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George K
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I wonder how much a secret lair inside a mountain, with freakin' jet runways costs...

Who knows, who knows?

Oh!


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Mikhailoh
Apr 28 2008, 05:35 AM
Aqua Letifer
Apr 28 2008, 09:32 AM
Mikhailoh
Apr 28 2008, 05:20 AM
Hardened or no, I suspect we could close that hole in the mountain down in short order.

Mik, you're missing the point. It's only fun to be enemies with someone if they have secret, scary gadgets, like secret lairs and underground nuclear missile silos and runways cut out of a mountain. They need to have their fun so that we can have ours.


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That's out of order, though! You can't blow up their secret dungeon headquarters before they reveal their evil plan to rule the world!

Look, check your Marvel and DC backlogs. Our military has long-established Rules of Engagement for this sort of thing.
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:leftarrow:

See multitudinous prior posts re: you and too much WoW.
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Apr 28 2008, 05:41 AM
:leftarrow:

See multitudinous prior posts re: you and too much WoW.

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Hey, if only you could remotely fly a cruise missile in real time! Luke and the Death Star all over again.
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Mikhailoh
Apr 28 2008, 09:35 AM
Aqua Letifer
Apr 28 2008, 09:32 AM
Mikhailoh
Apr 28 2008, 05:20 AM
Hardened or no, I suspect we could close that hole in the mountain down in short order.

Mik, you're missing the point. It's only fun to be enemies with someone if they have secret, scary gadgets, like secret lairs and underground nuclear missile silos and runways cut out of a mountain. They need to have their fun so that we can have ours.


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Mik, I thought by now that you would have learned. :no: The only way to successfully take down a fortified hidden airbase inside a mountain is to send in a slightly effeminate british gambler, along with his brazen hussy of the day. Have him get captured by the North Koreans and reveal that the hussy was working for them the entire time. Fortunately, though, his powers of lovemaking will have been such that she throws aside all of her political idealogy and dreams of world domination in order to get one more shot at the sack. She breaks him out, and he then uses his dental floss/plastique to blow a hole in the nuclear reactor containment field while a group of pigmy, smuggler, freedom fighters provides cover for he and the hussy. Thus leveling the mountain.

Cruise missile my @ss, unless of course, it's a Tom Cruise missile.
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I like the Cruise missile better, LD. I can see a whole lot that can go wrong with your plan although it would certainly make for a better movie.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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Jolly
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The fighterbase stuff has been rumored in military circles for the last ten years.

It's pretty poor military doctrine, IMO....
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Once you know where it is, you simply position equipment to knock 'em down as they come out. Just like knowing where the hornets' nest is.
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Apr 28 2008, 10:36 AM
I like the Cruise missile better, LD. I can see a whole lot that can go wrong with your plan although it would certainly make for a better movie.

It's a matter of allocation of resources my friend. A cruise missile costs what? 100k? 200k? If it fails, that's a heck of a loss. If my plan fails, all we're out is one effeminate British guy.
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Apr 28 2008, 09:46 AM
A cruise missile costs what? 100k? 200k? If it fails, that's a heck of a loss.

$600,000, LD.


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Knocking it out will not be a big deal. The real problem is, will our next president have the balls to do it? And will our gutless congress back him/her? :sword:
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