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(02-15-2010 01:35 PM)I45owl Wrote:  We are not the only ones to have launched satellites in the past.

If the Chinese were not able to launch ICBMs prior to the late 1990s, that's pretty astounding to me.

They have a DF-4 and DF-5 ICBMs which they had from 1975. They are basically clones of the old US Titan I's-- liquid fueled, they had to put them on exposed launch pads to fuel them. Huge warheads, but accuracy sucks.

The Chinese didn't start deploying operational MIRV's until the mid-late 90's.
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(02-15-2010 01:50 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  
(02-15-2010 01:35 PM)I45owl Wrote:  We are not the only ones to have launched satellites in the past.

If the Chinese were not able to launch ICBMs prior to the late 1990s, that's pretty astounding to me.

They have a DF-4 and DF-5 ICBMs which they had from 1975. They are basically clones of the old US Titan I's-- liquid fueled, they had to put them on exposed launch pads to fuel them. Huge warheads, but accuracy sucks.

The Chinese didn't start deploying operational MIRV's until the mid-late 90's.

Any idea who those missiles are pointing at?
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(02-15-2010 01:50 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  Huge warheads, but accuracy sucks.
As I've said before, close only counts in horseshoes and nuclear weapons.
02-15-2010 02:18 PM
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(02-15-2010 12:22 PM)Paul M Wrote:  So China doesn't have technology that previously only we had?

This.

Some partisans, like Mach, just can't bring themselves to trash a member of their own party, national security be damned.
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(02-15-2010 02:18 PM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  
(02-15-2010 01:50 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  Huge warheads, but accuracy sucks.
As I've said before, close only counts in horseshoes and nuclear weapons.

I understand, though not from personal experience, that close also counts with hand grenades.
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