Maes Posted April 18, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-17751991 Edit: Launch successful "Agni-V is to meet our present-day threat perceptions, which are determined by our defence forces and other agencies" "This is a deterrent to avoid wars and it is not country-specific" Mr Gupta said India "has a no-first-use policy", and described the country's missile development programme "purely defensive". VK Saraswat, scientific adviser to Defence Minister AK Antony, told The Hindu newspaper that the launch will mark a "historic day". "Agni-V is a game-changer and a technological marvel. It is a weapon which can perform multiple functions," he said. So it's OK for Indians to boast and gloat about their missiles with a stated military purpose, without anyone in the "West" daring to make a single comment, while when NK fired yet another failed missile with a stated peaceful intent, everyone was oh so much butthurt? Still, kudos to NK for not backing down and launching it anyway. Take note that India actually has working nukes that they can put in the warheads, not fizzles. I so hope that NK intelligence steals their "peaceful" and "defensive-only" designs which were developed and tested with the tolerance if not the co-operation of the "West", and then shares them with Iran. If anything, just to help create a new counterbalance. OK, I know that politics have little to do with righteousness or fairness, but this is really a hard one to doublethink, at least for me. 0 Share this post Link to post
Kira Posted April 18, 2012 How dare you saying good things about NK Maes? The eurocops will take you out of your bed and beat your sorry greek ass until we crumble under our own debts. Most funny is the fact that India and Pakistan were close to start a nuclear war a few years ago. 0 Share this post Link to post
MRB_Doom Posted April 18, 2012 Speaking of missiles, India and Russia developed the BrahMos super-sonic beast years ago. That rocket is one bad motherfucker. BrahMos Oooh baby 0 Share this post Link to post
dew Posted April 18, 2012 and what do you want to do about it, maes? put pressure on india? laughable. they are a superpower, they can do whatever the hell they want. 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted April 18, 2012 Not to mention India is very cozy with China right now. The Asian bloc is rising high indeed. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fluffles Posted April 18, 2012 Need Ghandi to help sabotage the missles 0 Share this post Link to post
Avoozl Posted April 18, 2012 Let's just hope that test firing missiles doesn't become a trend in most countries. 0 Share this post Link to post
Aliotroph? Posted April 18, 2012 Quasar said:Not to mention India is very cozy with China right now. The Asian bloc is rising high indeed. They might be trade cozy, but it's a weird cozy, since their border is disputed. Anyway, I'm cool with anyone developing missiles. Missiles are neat. :D 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted April 18, 2012 If I were living next to Pakistan, I would have created the Doomsday device. 0 Share this post Link to post
PRIMEVAL Posted April 18, 2012 I know we haven't been best of buddies with North Korea, but how are we feeling towards India? I never hear of them other than our complaints about customer service... Perhaps we don't see them as a threat if we don't consider them an enemy? And the only good thing I can say about Korea right now is that they made a good modern monster movie recently called The Host. X) 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted April 18, 2012 dew said:and what do you want to do about it, maes? put pressure on india? Dunno, maybe we could express some very cautious, undirected, vague and moderate concern, hoping that it's not taken "the wrong way"? 0 Share this post Link to post
dew Posted April 18, 2012 nah, it's safer to just pretend we overheard and go back to bashing iran and syria. and cuba. those we can harrass at will. 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted April 18, 2012 Does America still give a shit about Cuba? 0 Share this post Link to post
Krispy Posted April 18, 2012 dew said:nah, it's safer to just pretend we overheard and go back to bashing iran and syria. and cuba. those we can harrass at will. Yeah! Damn minorities. Oh, was that sarcasm? Well, America is nothing like that. 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted April 19, 2012 Quasar said:Not to mention India is very cozy with China right now. Heh - their "cozy" relationship reminds me of a line from an old video game (this one - IIRC). "Let us embrace each other with nuclear arms!"Technician said:Does America still give a shit about Cuba? Damn right it does! The Mafia wants it's casinos and nightclubs back. 0 Share this post Link to post
exp(x) Posted April 19, 2012 PRIMEVAL said:I know we haven't been best of buddies with North Korea, but how are we feeling towards India? They took our jobs! 0 Share this post Link to post
PRIMEVAL Posted April 19, 2012 exp(x) said:They took our jobs! Thought that was China? lol 0 Share this post Link to post
Kirby Posted April 19, 2012 Technician said:Does America still give a shit about Cuba? I think this puts it best, not to mention everything else he says 0 Share this post Link to post
Jodwin Posted April 19, 2012 PRIMEVAL said:Thought that was China? lol Not if you're in the software business. 0 Share this post Link to post
MRB_Doom Posted April 19, 2012 India launches long-range missile Too sexy for my blast wave, too sexy... 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted April 19, 2012 So as not to feel left out - Pakistan tests some missiles Sort of overshadowed by the North Korean debacle. 0 Share this post Link to post
Mr. T Posted April 19, 2012 Technician said:If I were living next to Pakistan, I would have created the Doomsday device. Technician likes surprises 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted April 19, 2012 Launch successful. Well, so it's once more a matter of accepting that 2+2=5, and swallow down the doublethink notion that somehow nukes and ICBMs can be in the "right hands" (such as the USA, UK and Israel, all undoubtedly sane and infinitely rational) and in the "wrong" hands (the USSR, NK, Iran, China, etc.). The only thin line is between "wrong hands that you can't do shit about anymore" (Israel, USSR, Russia, China, India, Pakistan etc.) and "wrong hands that you can still do something about" (NK, Iran etc.). 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted April 19, 2012 Are you expecting a comeback for the USSR, Maes? 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted April 19, 2012 There'd better be one, for everybody's sake. A playing field monopolized by one system in a state of morbid complacency and infighting, targeted by shadowy entities such as "hedge funds" and "speculators" is much more dangerous than having a polar opposite kind of adversary. 0 Share this post Link to post
MRB_Doom Posted April 19, 2012 Well Putin is back and he is NOT going to go for appeasement or hamburger diplomacy like the soft and weak Medvedev. 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted April 19, 2012 The job sharing agreement Medvedev has with Putin probably doesn't permit him to act tougher than his master. 0 Share this post Link to post
MRB_Doom Posted April 19, 2012 GreyGhost said:The job sharing agreement Medvedev has with Putin probably doesn't permit him to act tougher than his master. If Putin would have been President of Russia last year when the UNSC green lighted a no-fly zone over Libya, it could have been stopped by a Russian veto easily. Sadly, President Medvedev and the clique behind him refused to listen to Prime Minister Putin. So here we go President Putin, again, to the unknown future. 0 Share this post Link to post
geo Posted April 21, 2012 To be honest I thought as a world we were beyond such dick waving as missiles for military purposes. But hey I guess India can join the party. Maybe join us to attack North Korea (China) one day and liberate them. 0 Share this post Link to post
Kira Posted April 21, 2012 Liberate what and who? Manipulated or not these countries have a strong support from the population, despite how medias depict the situation (lol at the China Spring that was talked a year ago). If you enter in those hives with machine guns and have the effing luck to reach their capitol and neutralize their government, you'd better have means to strenghten law enforcement at his maximum in the whole country, so heavily populated you can't imagine how much it can really represent. 0 Share this post Link to post