Month: May 2015

That’s just one part of the secret suicidal nuclear policies taking place in our US strategic defenses. My readers are familiar with PDD-60 (decreed in 1997, but still in force) instructing our nuclear forces not to rely on “launch on warning,” but to prepare to absorb a nuclear first strike and “retaliate after.” But absorbing an enemy’s first strike would take out all our 450 land based Minuteman III missiles, which have just been reduced to a single warhead!

Also in 1997 Bill Clinton declared the US would unilaterally agree to keep half of our ballistic missile subs in port to make them easier for the Russians to target—a supposed “confidence building” measure. These suicidal gestures clearly foretell our government’s willingness to let us take the first hit which destroys most of our military forces and gives our leaders the excuse to convince the West to form a militarized global government and army in order to prosecute the war. Mark my words, you’ll see that happen someday.

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World Affairs Brief, May 1, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.

Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).

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CHINA-RUSSIA MISSILE DEAL

While the rest of the former Soviet client states like Syria and Iran are left begging for Russia to give them the outdated S-300 anti-aircraft and anti-missile system they’ve paid for, China is now to receive the highly effective Russian S-400 system, the world’s best anti-missile missile. Unlike the US ABM this missile packs a warhead of 50 lbs of high explosives. Popular Science has the story:

 The S-400 SAM has a range of 400km, effective against many targets that Russia (or China) would face, such as stealth and conventional fighters, bombers, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.

In April 2015, both Anatoly Isaikin, CEO of Russia’s arms sales Rosoboronexport agency, and Du Wenlong, a senior member of the PLA Academy of Military Science, have stated that China will take delivery of the S-400 SAM. The Moscow Times reports that the deal was negotiated for $3 billion, to deliver 6 S-400 battalions. With each battalion consisting of 6 transport erector launch (TEL) vehicles, China would have 36 launch vehicles.

 The S-400 is the longest range SAM system in the world. It first entered into Russian service in 2007, and has capability to intercept ballistic missiles and high speed aircraft, while its 91N6E can locate and track stealth aircraft at standoff (100km+) distances. The most infamous of the S-400’s three missiles is the 40N6, which has an astounding range of 400km. The 40N6’s extreme range would allow S-400 TELs on China’s coast to shoot down aircraft anywhere over Taiwan. The smaller 250km-ranged 48N6 and 120km-range 9M96E2 missiles are also equally lethal against fighters, bombers, early warning and electronic warfare aircraft, as well as cruise and ballistic missiles.

More importantly, the newest Russian system has the latest radar anti-jamming technology to thwart the usual attempts by US planes to jam the ABM guidance and controls systems. None of the Russian ABMs given to Saddam Hussein were able to counter US radar jamming (ECM) aircraft which blinded the S-200 system. In like manner Israel has been able to penetrate Syria’s ABM network at will using jamming technology.

One of the reasons the Russians did not come to Iraq’s defense as promised is that allowing the attack to go forward allowed them to eavesdrop on the entire spectrum of US jamming techniques, so they could design counter-jamming technology into the S-400. If the US goes up against a real opponent in the future, it is not going down with the overwhelming ease of Desert Storm.

 The S-400 will supplement China’s Russian-made S-300 and domestic HQ-9 long-range SAMs, while its 30K6E command system can even interlink with other Russian made SAMs, like the S-400 and TOR-M1, both of which China already fields. The S-400s would likely be operated by the PLA Air Force (PLAAF), which has historically operated China’s land based long-range air defense systems. While the 40N6’s long range could theoretically cover all of Taiwan’s air space, they would most likely protect major bases like the Hainan submarine pens, important cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, or hide within the inland mountains of Fujian and Guangdong

The 91N6E “Big Bird” AESA radar can locate and track stealth aircraft at standoff (100km+) distances, while it can detect high altitude targets like ballistic missiles at distances of up to 600km.

The deal is significant to regional security as well as geopolitics. China’s improved air defense capabilities will greatly complicate any efforts to conduct aerial operations or missile attacks against the Chinese mainland, even with stealthy drones, longer-ranged cruise missiles, or new bombers, all part of the new US “third offset” plan. In wartime, the S-400 could even support Chinese airstrikes by knocking out enemy fighters flying above their own bases and cities. On the strategic level, the S-400 sale would facilitate Sino-Russian cooperation, as well as facilitate other sales and joint projects like submarines and space operations.

In contrast, the US has purposely designed an ABM missile system with a non-explosive kinetic hit vehicle that must make physical contact with the incoming warhead to do the job. Why would you do that when the missile still weighs about the same as one with an explosive warhead, but is handicapped by having to have pin-point accuracy at a moving target of 10k mph? It doesn’t make sense unless you want to communicate to the Russians that you don’t intend to stop their missile attack effectively.

That’s just one part of the secret suicidal nuclear policies taking place in our US strategic defenses. My readers are familiar with PDD-60 (decreed in 1997, but still in force) instructing our nuclear forces not to rely on “launch on warning,” but to prepare to absorb a nuclear first strike and “retaliate after.” But absorbing an enemy’s first strike would take out all our 450 land based Minuteman III missiles, which have just been reduced to a single warhead!

Also in 1997 Bill Clinton declared the US would unilaterally agree to keep half of our ballistic missile subs in port to make them easier for the Russians to target—a supposed “confidence building” measure. These suicidal gestures clearly foretell our government’s willingness to let us take the first hit which destroys most of our military forces and gives our leaders the excuse to convince the West to form a militarized global government and army in order to prosecute the war. Mark my words, you’ll see that happen someday.

In lock-step with this suicidal doctrine the AP just reported on the idiotic remarks of a former General of US Strategic Command pushing them take US missiles off any alert status. I’ll explain why his reasoning is completely bogus.

Taking U.S. and Russian missiles off high alert could keep a possible cyberattack from starting a nuclear war, a former commander of U.S. nuclear forces says, but neither country appears willing to increase the lead-time to prepare the weapons for launch.

Retired Gen. James Cartwright said in an interview that “de-alerting” nuclear arsenals could foil hackers by reducing the chance of firing a weapon in response to a false warning of attack. Essentially adding a longer fuse can be done without eroding the weapons’ deterrent value.

A study led by Cartwright proposes to adjust the missile command and control system so that it would take 24 hours to 72 hours to get the missiles ready for launch.

Cartwright said cyberthreats to the systems that command and control U.S. nuclear weapons demand greater attention. While the main worry once was a hacker acting alone, today it is a hostile nation-state, he said, that poses more of a threat even as the Pentagon has improved its cyberdefenses.

Wrong on all counts, and he knows better. He’s promoting this as a globalist stooge, not based on his military knowledge. First, US missiles are not subject to hacking as they are not connected to the internet. They are hardwired to command centers and have alternate backup means of communication, none of which are related to the internet. The launch code is impossible to imitate, discover or bypass even by those manning these launch centers.

Second, NORAD has many safeguards against a lone or erroneous missile launch causing a mass retaliation by our missile forces. 1) we do have ABMs that, though few in number and with a 50% success rate, are capable of bringing down a hypothetical errant missile. 2) Our spy satellites must confirm multiple missile launches toward America in order to trigger a launch alert. These satellites track the heat signature of a missile and there’s no mistaking their reliability. 3) you cannot tolerate a longer delay for missile launch than is currently built into the system if you are going to have any Launch on Warning deterrent value. Once enemy missiles are detected by our satellites, you have approximately 20 minutes to get our missiles out of their silos and on their way before warheads hit. The general’s stupid suggestion of putting our missiles behind a 24 hour delay ensures that they couldn’t respond to an incoming attack. Even a 30 minute delay would be too late.

And that’s my point: Cartwright’s suggestion seems to be playing by PDD-60, prepping the public to accept, in the name of peace, a dangerous strategy that will guarantee a first strike on our military forces. Currently our missile forces still are on alert and expect to launch on warning of an incoming attack. I have long hypothesized that the launch codes will not be relayed to them by the White House in order to deny them the ability to launch and force us to “absorb” the first strike. Military commanders no longer have any emergency secondary launch codes to use in case of non communication with the White House—also thanks to PDD-60.

So if Cartwright’s suicidal proposal gains traction with the establishment, and you see this 24 hour delay enacted, you’ll know it is meant to guarantee we can’t launch on warning. This would give partial cover for the globalists advisors running the White House since they wouldn’t have to explain afterward why they didn’t send the launch codes—although I’m sure they could concoct some technical excuse for the failure.

Cartwright, by the way, is the lead author of a report published Wednesday by the Global Zero Commission, an Leftist group co-founded by a former Air Force nuclear missile launch control officer Bruce Blair, who became a rabid anti nuclear zealot. It is hardly unbiased.

Meanwhile Russia and China are busy doing joint military exercises on land and sea on a large scale and collaborating on a number of other weapons projects including, tanks, drones, and a new jumbo jet.

Sputnik News, one of the newest of the Russian news outlets, announced that Russia is to renew production of the Tu-160 (Blackjack) supersonic strategic bomber and missile carrier. The Blackjack bomber is the Russian version (and obvious copycat) of the US B-1 supersonic bomber, still in operation (in limited numbers). The B-1B Lancer is the supersonic component of the USAF’s long-range bomber force, along with the venerable B-52 and the Stealth flying wind, the B-2 Spirit.

Russia Insider, also a new addition to the pro-Russian Internet News services, summarized the growing Russian Navy which still has a ways to go to challenge the West:

The Pacific Fleet, in particular, has been growing as of late. Already it is the second largest Russian fleet, with 73 vessels, including 23 submarines and 50 surface warships, according to The Diplomat.

One of its more notable recent additions is a new Borei-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN). The Pacific Fleet received one of the Borei-class SSBNs in 2013, and is expected to ultimately have at least six of them. Furthermore, the Pacific Fleet is expected to receive the first six deliveries of Russia’s new Yasen-class attack nuclear submarines (SSGN).

Russia Today, (RT) the original “new” Russian News service aimed at US rightwing audiences detailed China’s latest heavy fighter/attack plane based, as usual, on a Russian design:

China’s advanced J-11D heavy fighter jet takes maiden flight. The upgraded D variant of China’s J-11 fighter jet, a copy of the Russian Sukhoi Su-27, has made its maiden flight, Chinese media reported. The jet reportedly has new radar and an air refueling system.

The J-11D model, which was tested in the air for the first time on Wednesday, incorporates technologies developed for the J-16 fighter jet. It is reported to have better active phased array radar, use more composite materials in its wings and tail, and be capable of firing more advanced air-to-air missiles like PL-10 and PL-15.

Remember that even though much of the Russian and Chinese weapons are imitations of US technology, they make up for what they may lack in technical superiority by producing more in quantity, and at a much lower price than US weapons. In a future war of attrition the expensive high-tech, but limited quantity, of US weapons may prove insufficient for the threat.

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