Is it time to invade Burma?

[SiberianTiger]

Well Agni ( 3500km for the latest one with 2490kg payload) and Brahmos ( 290km with 200-300kg payload) can only go so far. The PSLV .. or GSLV .. will have the capability to go anywhere in the world right? And with a lot more payload too .. if put on a sub-orbital instead of orbital trajectory.

This is going off-topic, but how many *SLV launch complexes are there and how quickly such big rockets can be readied for launch and launched?
This makes them only a good use for a first strike against an unsuspecting enemy in the ICBM role (I think the Indian space centers would be vanquished shortly thereafter, not leaving a second chance to launch anything).

BTW, a US cargo plane has landed in Myanmar now.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/12/myanmar.aid/?iref=mpstoryview

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Thomas

Horrible reports are there. I think the lowest flow of Ganges, Brahmaputra and Irravadi are the most dangerous places in the world to live.

 

[Urwumpe]

Instead of invading Burma: Ignore the opera generals. Don't think they are sane.

I would just help the people. If the generals get in your way, tell them to get a new job. And don't appease China. No money ever stopped the bullet of a gun. As long as China does not think they have to please you for business, why should you please China?

Just help the people - and please help them to help themselves. Don't give them rice bags, complex water supplies or TV sets. Remove the debris and the dead from the streets, maybe help them getting infrastructure back online and leave some brochures, where to get really good stuff for clean water and electricity. And that is not China.