The US Is Sending 4 Of These State Of The Art Destroyers To Join The Contested European Missile Shield
Robert Johnson
Business Insider
December 3, 2011
Despite chest-pounding Russian protests, the US is moving ahead with plans to install a missile defense shield to protect NATO European territory, and has committed four of its 60 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to sit off the coast of Spain.
Geoff Ziezulewicz of Stars and Stripes reports that the ships will deploy to the 6th fleet in Rota, and bring with them a full Lockheed Martin Aegis combat system with a long list of heavy ordnance and a “detect to kill” radar array.
The radar system, and the ability to send missiles to destroy incoming ballistic missiles, is what the Russians are so upset about.
At over 500 feet in length, and costing almost $2 billion apiece, the Arleigh Burke class are among the largest destroyers in the American fleet and play a key role in missile defense.
Along with the array of radar, the Navy’s website points out the full weapons systems carried on each ship includes:
• 96 cell Mk 41 vertical launch system
• BGM-109 Tomahawk
• RGM-84 Harpoon SSM
• RIM-66M Standard medium range SAM (has an ASuW mode)
• RIM-161 Standard Ballistic missile defense missile for Aegis BMD
• RIM-162 ESSM SAM
• RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC
• RIM-174A Standard ERAM
• one 5 inch (127 mm/54) Mk-45 Mod 1/2 (lightweight gun)
• one 5 inch (127 mm/62) Mk-45 mod 4 (lightweight gun)
• two 20 mm Phalanx CIWS, two 25 mm bushmasters
• two Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes (six Mk-46 or Mk-50 torpedoes, Mk-54 in the near future)
The official Navy line seems to be downplaying the role of the ships in the Missile Defense Shield, saying the destroyers will be tasked with a variety of missions within the 6th Fleet’s 20 million square miles of sea.
It will be interesting to see how far they actually stray from European coast.
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Comments
Paul until there is proof it will be very hard to believe that war is annulled. It would be nice if it was.
war is the means by which they will complete the agenda. if John Dinardo and his ilk are correct, war will be the final episode before the jolly green or is it red giant comes over the southern skies. collapse the economy, implement the police state, finally all out war. nuclear or not, it makes no difference to they who are going deep underground. as I said below they have scaler technology to make radioisotopes harmless, so a nuclear war is not such a problem as far as they are concerned.
WAR is the only thing that could save the PTB at this point.
I agree. there is technology, Kim, that will cleans rip radioisotopes, using scaler interferometry, see Tom Beardons website, for details on this and other scaler topics. Tesla as early as the turn f last century had thus figured out I believe so, a radioactive landscape apparently can be cleaned up. in thus case, what is to stop the powers that be from starting a b nuclear war? and if things are so terribly intertwined, , how on earth can the ET's stop it?
they are even starting stop and search at British bus stops now, in the Midlands, maybe as a precurso to the ludicrous olympics next year. I sincerely believe we may see a further , maybe significant roll out of the police state here in the Uk next year. it has me very concerned. thye have the cameras allover into and out of towns, in the shopping centres, all over, what has me worried are the Tetra masts popping up all over the place very very sinister indeed.
I am going out for a drive and a walk now, watch the vidoe I posted just now, makes me very angry. I need fresh air.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB7y1SloHyM&feature=player_embedded
Edgar Cayce says there is a possibility of WWIII, and another prophet which has a good track record also says a very good potential of WWIII and even mentioned nuclear war. I sure hope there are ET's that will stop this.