On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 14:42:54 -0000 (UTC), analogdial
wrote:

wrote:

analog: John was referring to YOU and YOUR
diatribes about me being a "terrorist" who wants
to destroy the WWV transmitters!

DUH...

No, John was referring to no one. He insincerely made up the fake claim
about the cruise missies and targeting information.

Not really. I indeed WAS referring to your post - and if the availability of the
hardware wasn't an issue, cruis missiles would be the easiest way to do it since
they are in the military inventories of numerous countries and, being equipped
with their own guidance systems, are pretty much fire-and-forget. Fortunately,
however, you can't simply walk into Home Depot and buy half a dozen cruise
missiles with the necessary means of launching them. That makes the idea of them
being used in a terrorist attack decidedly far-fetched - but what are the odds
of a terrorist, or a group of terrorists, deciding to take out WWV anyway? If
nobody calls in sick on any given day, there's going to be maybe half a dozen
employees there. The way terrorists think, that's way too much effort for far
too little results. Better to do a shopping mall the Saturday before Christmas.

But just for the sake of argument, let's suppose for the moment that for some
reason some "lone wolf" nutcase actually wanted to do it.

Modern field artillery systems could handle the job too, but again, they don't
sell mortars, cannons, and rockets at Wal-Mart, and even if you went down to San
Pedro, California where the USS Iowa is on display as a museum ship and somehow
gained control of the entire vessel, a target somewhere in Colorado would be
more than a little outside the 20.55 nautical mile range of her 16-inch guns.

An aircraft could also be used to attack the site where WWV/WWVB are located,
but that is subject to its own set of obstacles. You won't find bombers, fighter
planes, and the ordnance to arm such aircraft at a local Sam's Club. Uncle Sam
has that stuff, but it's guarded by armed soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines,
and civilian airports have lots of security in place these days too. The odds of
a "lone wolf" conducting such an attack from the air therefore seems pretty
slim, although I suppose it would provide some interesting listening for anyone
within range with a receiver capable of monitoring AICC and guard... grin

Anyway, that basically leaves us with someone physically showing up at the site,
defeating the security measures there, and destroying the transmitters with
explosives or by other means, That may or may not be possible to pull off - but
the attacker(s) wouldn't need the GPS coordinates of the antennas to do it.

Therefore, implying that someone wants to obtain those coordinates for nefarious
purposes is, as I said upthread, pathetic - and also typifies the very kind of
paranoid fear REAL terrorists WANT you to feel. (Why do you think they're called
"terror-ists" to begin with?)

John D. Kasupski
Niagara Falls, NY