Unexplained Missile Launch Off Los Angeles

As much as I'd like to believe this was unexpected and unplanned, I will go out on  a limb and say, Probably Not!  Why?  Well, a submarine doesn't surface in those waters and the Navy says, no, not ours.  Nope, they would have to cough up this information.  Vandenberg base wasn't scheduled to launch anything.  This missile went straight out to sea from 35 miles or more from shore according to reports.

What missiles do we have that can be launched by accident or with purpose that followed this missiles trajectory?  Several come to mind and more than likely this was either a surface ship or we had a visitor from another nation in the vicinity.

Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Robert Ellsworth commented, that this could have been a demonstration launch in the Pacific, to enhance President Obamas presence while he is in Indonesia.

The USA did a similar launch during the Cold War in the Atlantic to show the Soviets what we had on the table...

We can always assume the worst and say it was an anti-aircraft launch for some important reason.... lakotahope



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Officials 'Confident' Missile Shot Off Los Angeles Not From Foreign Military

Published November 09, 2010

| FoxNews.com

KCBS

Nov. 8: An unexplained missile is shot off the California coast.

A video that appears to show a missile launch off the coast of California is so far "unexplained" by anyone in the military, a Pentagon spokesman told reporters Tuesday morning, but officials say it does not consider the event a threat to the homeland. 

A military official told Fox News that the U.S. military is closer to getting an answer and hopes to have a statement soon.

John Cornelio, a spokesman wiht North American Aerospace Defense Command/U.S. Northern Command, said officials are "very confident" the mystery missile "was not fired from a foreign military, that's not what we are working with. 

"If it were an attack we would have known it and we would have done something about it," Cornelio said.

Earlier in the day, Col. Dave Lapan said the military doesn't know exactly what the so-called mystery missile was so can't say it's harmless.

A local CBS affiliate in Los Angeles on Monday evening captured on video the image of the "spectacular" projectile flying about 35 miles out to sea, west of Los Angeles and north of Catalina Island.

The Missile Defense Agency told Fox News it did not launch any test missile Monday night that could explain the dramatic images. The Navy and the Air Force were also unable to offer an explanation.

Lapan said it does not appear that whatever was flying was part of a "regularly scheduled missile test." He noted that before a missile test, notifications are sent to mariners and airmen. This does not appear to be the case here. 

At this point, the military is working only with video taken from the local news camera, and NORAD and Northcom apparently were not able to detect the contrail on their own.

It appears from the video, Lapan said, the object was launched from the water and not U.S. soil, though at this point there is no way to be certain.

If a test missile or an accidental missile was launched in the region it would have either come from Naval Air Station Point Mugu or Vandenberg Air Force Base. At sea it could have come from a U.S. submarine or a surface ship. But so far, it all remains a mystery.

Click here to see the video captured by KCBS in Los Angeles.

Fox News' Steve Centanni and Justin Fishel contributed to this report.

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Russia Stops Delivery of S-300 Missile System

Well, once again we see that Russia is partially interested in keeping Iran from developing a nastier militaristic regime. Nuclear capable Islam are hard to figure out. After all, we do support Pakistan, but their foe tends to waffle between Afghanistan, the taliban and China.

The greatest thought from me is Iran would try to wipe out Israel. That will never happen as if there ever is a nuclear confrontation, I am pretty sure the U.S.A. will respond with punishment that will be biblical. The Iranian people aren't the real culprits, but the fundamentalist attitudes of the mullahs are a danger to their own people. .... lakotahope

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Medvedev bans weapon sales to Iran

Reuters

Thursday, 23 September 2010

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Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev has issued a decree prohibiting the delivery of S-300 air defence missile systems and other weapons to Iran, the Kremlin said yesterday.

The decree will please the Western nations concerned about Iran's military capability. Israel and the United States in particular have long lobbied Moscow to scrap plans to sell Tehran the high-precision missile systems, and Russian officials had promised not to deliver them after supporting a fresh round of UN sanctions against Iran in June.

The move bars the delivery to Iran of "any battle tanks, combat armoured vehicles, large-calibre artillery systems, combat helicopters, military ships" and missiles covered by a UN register, as well as spare parts. It specifically prohibits the delivery of the S-300 – of particular concern because of fears that Iran could use them to protect facilities crucial to its nuclear programme, which Western governments suspect is aimed at developing a bomb.

The decree was announced hours after Russia's armed forces chief of staff said the military was fulfilling government orders not to deliver S-300s to Iran. The timing of the decree could have been intended to appease the West after the start-up of a Russian-built nuclear power plant in Iran last month and the recent announcement of Russia's plans to sell missiles to Syria, which alarmed Israel and the White House. Reuters

North Korea warns that military forces will respond if UN condemns it for ship sinking

It appears to me that North Korea is doing everything possible to threaten war with South Korea and the United States. They must be under the assumption that the closer they can get us to an "act of war" declaration, then the American people will cry uncle and submit to whatever demands the little weasel Kim Jung il thinks up for the moment. Maybe, but I don't think that the USA will walk away from the North's declarations and I am pretty sure that this country and Iran need to be met head on in the coming months or years. ... lakotahope

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AP

June 15: South Korean Marines work along the fence on Baengnyeong Island, South Korea, near the border with North Korea.

UNITED NATIONS

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea is warning that its military forces will respond if the U.N. Security Council questions or condemns the country over the sinking of a South Korean navy ship — an act it vehemently denies.

North Korea's U.N. Ambassador Sin Son Ho told a news conference Tuesday there is "a touch-and-go situation that war may break out at any time" because of South Korean accusations that the North torpedoed the ship and killed 46 sailors.

Sin accused South Korea and the United States of cooking up the accusation against the North and demanded that a military investigation team from Pyongyang be permitted to go to the site of the sinking, which the South has refused to allow.