I thought Bush took care of the "Don't Fuck With US" era. Some people never learn.

Once upon a lifetime I unofficially worked a project with an Australian Air Force pilot who flew tankers.

Puts the "do little" in Doolittle Raid, doesn't it?

Likewise, there's an RAN underway replenishment capability for surface action. One of the pages I hit on was an article about one of Australia's two AORs unrepping a US carrier -- the captain was moved to remark that the replenishment was on a larger scale than he usually saw. Probably pumping over a lot more JP-5 and vertrepping more food.

Article.

Your link goes to JP-8 not JP-5

Pass the keys to Michelle, she does. She's scary.

This missile launch does not become front page news until later in the week when a three stage rocket is expected to be assembled. What happens after than will be interesting. One question that does remain unanswered: is Kim still in charge?

Sure, the Iranians who came to help out brought a letter to him. They would know who to address the letter to.

Kim had a stroke a few month ago. In two months, the Iranians provided Korea with a three stage rocket to attack Japan. Now I understand. The Iranians are now in charge. All they had to do is put the correct name on a letter.

It starts with JP-8. Then I suppose for the sake of completeness, it gets around to its seafaring brother, JP-5. The JP-5 refs start in the first paragraph. And there's the JP-5 link at the bottom of that page for the insatiable curiosity.

Bird away!

Shit's gonna hit the fan now.

The most devestating thing we could do to North Korea is ... ignore them.

Fine, nice launch (allegedly not, actually), cary on.

No. After all the posturing and ultimatums, nothing will happen.

It could have been problematic if the missile had failed and N Korea blamed an anti-missile. Or it could have been a problem had it crashed on Japan. Then we might have discovered who is currently in charge - Kim or his extremist military.

Maybe the rocket did not do as well as they expected. We don't even know that. But there is no indication that anything obtained orbit implying the rocket was not as powerful as they claimed.

I saw one report, "quoting a reliable source":rolleyes:, that said there was no satellite on the rocket. Maybe they didn't have that much confidence in the rocket to risk the satellite on the first shot... if they actually have a satellite.

Ahh, Japanese school uniforms. There should be playboy bunny logos on their socks, though.

So true.