Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] a Backyard Project ? : )

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>]

Now you guys hold on there!  Don't need to be telling this stuff.  It's
been that easy for over 20-30 years.  This should have been common
knowledge long ago.  Now with this, it's gonna be far easier for the
government to regulate psubs a lot more.  Launch one of them homemade
cruise missiles from a psub and you're gone.  They can't find you, but
you can hit them.  Good bye psub.  They'll make them illegal "just
because" of the potential.

I best shut up before I tell of other easy ways terrorists could hit the
USA with, but are too chicken to do it.
Carl



Steven Mills wrote:
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> Someone on this list from New Zealand?  Have you heard of this?
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> I was doing a search on thrusters and propulsion and came across
> this little tidbit !
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> --Steve
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> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=8&u=/nm/20030605/od_nm/newzealand_missile_dc
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> Building a Cruise Missile in His Backyard
> Thu Jun 5, 9:26 AM ET  Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
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> WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand handyman with a passion for jet engines says he is building a cruise missile in his backyard using parts and technology freely available over the Internet.
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> Bruce Simpson, a 49-year-old Internet site developer, has a site entitled "A DIY Cruise Missile" on which he says he was prompted to build the missile because so many people had told him it could not easily be done.
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> "I decided to put my money where my mouth is and build a cruise missile in my garage, on a budget of just US$5,000," he said on his Web site (www.interestingprojects.com).
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> "I like to think of this project as a military version of 'Junkyard Wars'," he says referring to a television program about teams building big machines from scrapyard materials.
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> He said he would publish step-by-step instructions on his Web site about how to make the jet-powered missile, which would be able to fly 100 km (60 miles) from his home, north of the main city of Auckland, in less than 15 minutes.
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> The missile could carry a small warhead weighing 10 kg (22 lb), would be hard to detect on radar, and would be impossible for the New Zealand Air Force to stop, Simpson said.
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> "Obviously the goal is not to provide terrorists or other nefarious types with plans for a working cruise missile but to prove the point that nations need to be prepared for this type of sophisticated attack from within their own borders."
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> The New Zealand Herald newspaper reported Simpson had imported a radio control transmitter, global positioning equipment, and a flight control system, among other things, without encountering problems from New Zealand customs.
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> "We are aware of the initiative," a Defense Force spokesman told Reuters, but declined any further comment.

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