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| Remember "Thunderbirds?" - the Runway; The North Koreans are doing it! | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 28 2008, 05:12 AM (1,196 Views) | |
| George K | Apr 28 2008, 05:12 AM Post #1 |
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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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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 28 2008, 05:13 AM Post #2 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Dude that rocks. |
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| George K | Apr 28 2008, 05:18 AM Post #3 |
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Indeed! ![]() oops! I mean...
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 28 2008, 05:20 AM Post #4 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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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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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| George K | Apr 28 2008, 05:26 AM Post #5 |
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Yeah, it would seem that a GPS-directed cruise missle could quickly close the door, eh? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 28 2008, 05:29 AM Post #6 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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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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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| John D'Oh | Apr 28 2008, 05:31 AM Post #7 |
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MAMIL
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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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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 28 2008, 05:32 AM Post #8 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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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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| Mikhailoh | Apr 28 2008, 05:35 AM Post #9 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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See previous post, above |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| JBryan | Apr 28 2008, 05:35 AM Post #10 |
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I am the grey one
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If jet fighters can take off from there then cruise missiles can land there. |
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"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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| George K | Apr 28 2008, 05:36 AM Post #11 |
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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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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 28 2008, 05:39 AM Post #12 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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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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| Mikhailoh | Apr 28 2008, 05:41 AM Post #13 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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See multitudinous prior posts re: you and too much WoW. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 28 2008, 05:49 AM Post #14 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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| Piano*Dad | Apr 28 2008, 06:00 AM Post #15 |
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Bull-Carp
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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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| Luke's Dad | Apr 28 2008, 06:33 AM Post #16 |
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Emperor Pengin
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Mik, I thought by now that you would have learned. 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. |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| JBryan | Apr 28 2008, 06:36 AM Post #17 |
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I am the grey one
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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. |
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"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 | Apr 28 2008, 06:40 AM Post #18 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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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.... |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 28 2008, 06:42 AM Post #19 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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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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| Luke's Dad | Apr 28 2008, 06:46 AM Post #20 |
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Emperor Pengin
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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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| George K | Apr 28 2008, 06:54 AM Post #21 |
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$600,000, LD.
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Luke's Dad | Apr 28 2008, 08:07 AM Post #22 |
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Emperor Pengin
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I was thinking more along the lines of
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| VPG | Apr 28 2008, 08:55 AM Post #23 |
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Pisa-Carp
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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?
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I'M NOT YELLING.........I'M ITALIAN...........THAT'S HOW WE TALK! "People say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look." Ronald Reagan, Inaugural, 1971 | |
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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.


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