Israeli Anti-Missile Test Blew Up Space Shuttle Columbia

[Wimpy]

I know, Rense, but this article brought up memories of standing on my deck with a neighbor while waiting for the shuttles 'two' sonic booms that happen during all Kennedy Space Center landings.  Typical of most residents along the space coast of FL, I not only had my TV tuned to the NASA cable channel but waited in anticipation of possibly seeing the shuttle break through the clouds and hearing the booms.

Jay, my neighbor, and I looked with dread at each other when the precise landing time came and past.  I remember it was to be around 10 AM Eastern Daylight Time. I went into the house and only saw people staring at their computer screens on the NASA channel.  It was quite a few minutes later that a 'problem' was reported.

Back then NASA & the Kennedy Space Center was a customer of mine.  In fact, a week before and just prior to the launch, one of the people I dealt with at NASA made a peculiar comment about the "JEW BOY" who was going on this STS-107 mission.  Something about all the ridiculous fan fare over this Jew being on the Shuttle.  This was before I awoke to the jew problem.  His comments, particularly from a man born in Poland, were brave, made me quite curious and I instinctively felt uncomfortable & anxious that someone might over-hear his jew comments.

Interesting story......

http://rense.com/general95/anti-missle-test.html

Israeli Anti-Missile Test Blew
Up Space Shuttle Columbia
By Yoichi Shimatsu
Exclusive to Rense.com
2-2-13
 

Ten years ago, the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded on descent during a top-secret mission. At the time, my analysis of the cause of the blast drew support from American aerospace engineers along with angry death threats from zealots in the Israeli Air Force. Not only was the Israeli military incensed by my revealing that their faulty laser gun system had destroyed the U.S. space craft from within but also that the expose was seen as insulting to astronaut Ilan Ramon, the Israeli war hero who had earlier led the air strike on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor.
     
    The Challenger disaster of January 28, 1986, was immediately followed by the greatest cover-up in aerospace history, an information blackout that continues till now, even after the termination of the shuttle program. The deaths of seven crew members and scientists on mission STS-107 launched January 16, 2003, were not due to an accident at launch that scraped foam insulation panels from the ship's hull, as claimed by NASA. That is an out-and-out official lie, and many NASA insiders are well aware that the foam story does not fit the facts.
     
    The actual cause of the Columbia explosion was the malfunction of an anti-ballistic missile weapons systems designed by the Israel Defense Force, which had been secretly mounted aboard the shuttle in preparation for the Iraq War.
     
    The Israeli laser gun on the Columbia is not a sci-fi fantasy. It was the prototype for the current Boeing YAL-1 airborne laser testbed. Although the IDF laser shot was successful, bursting a test rocket midair over the White Sands Test Range in New Mexico, its firing overheated the nuclear-isotope power system. The result was a radioactive cloud that disintegrated the Columbia.
     
    The Smoking Gun of Americium-242
     
    Salvage crews searching for the shuttle debris scattered across Texas were warned about the potential presence of americium-242, a radioactive isotope that vigorously emits neutrons. Since this isotope (which is much more radioactive than the common varietal 241 used in smoke detectors) has no conceivable purpose on a civilian space shuttle, its presence indicated that the Columbia's secret tests involved a high-powered weapons system. A space engineer at Houston Center confirmed that isotopes including americium-242, neptunium and californium can be used to generate electrical power.
     
    The smoking gun evidence came to my desk in the form of photos from a Western intelligence service, which had intercepted satellite images from three Israeli mini-satellites (each smaller than a basketball). The observation satellites had earlier been launched from the Columbia to record the laser gun's effectiveness. The series of color images clearly showed that NASA lied about the Columbia catching fire below its left wing. The only heat from the left wing came momentarily from the laser gun, and not from friction during re-entry.
     
    The satellite photos show that a first blast, indicated by a small yellowish cloud of gas, occurred in the rear section of the spacecraft. Just milli-seconds later, the white-hot gas triggered the fuel in the Columbia's propulsion system, which exploded in a reddish fireball. The loss of the shuttle's rocket engines and tail section left the stunned astronauts watching helplessly as their spacecraft started to break apart into fiery pieces.
     
    Horizontal Shot at a Rising Rocket
     
    The Columbia explosion occurred just as the shuttle was passing from the Pacific over the Southern California coast along its landing trajectory. Taking into account the
    Earth's curvature, that position put the laser gun on a horizontal axis pointed directly at the White Sands Test Range in New Mexico. Ballistic missiles on launch are more easily shot down from sideways and not from above.
     
    Residents of New Mexico and Arizona heard one loud blast, later confusing it for the explosion that wrecked the shuttle. The damaged Columbia was then much too distant and too high for acoustic waves to reach the inland states. What the startled residents heard was the explosion of a White Sands test rocket that had been laser-shot. The anti-missile test result: An "A" for accuracy, but an "F" for foul-up.
     
    Seeing Through the Smoke and Dust
     
    The IDF laser gun was used on another test during the same STS-107 mission, involving weather engineering over the eastern Mediterranean and Mideast, just prior to the
                                                                                                               
    U.S. invasion of Iraq. That test, known as the MEIDEX, the Mediterranean Israel Dust Experiment, was purportedly to test an infrared camera in studies of dust clouds and high-atmosphere visible charges known as sprites and elves. (http://spaceresearch.nasa.gov/sts-107/107_MEIDEX.pdf)
     
    The larger goal, according to the official record, was to probe the impact of dust on climate change. The real objectives, however, were related to the impending Iraq War, and involved bizarre man-made weather effects.
     
    First, the infrared camera, mounted in the rear near the the americium generator, was used to search for camouflaged Iraqi SCUD mobile missile launchers, not only through dust clouds but also beneath the sort of dense petroleum smoke released in the first Gulf War.  My suggestion that an infrared laser had been put aboard to penetrate dense cloud cover was rebutted by a hail of criticism from George Bush supporters.
     
    Second, a much bigger objective was weather change, to create a cold front in advance of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The Pentagon was worried that American soldiers would wilt under the desert sun. The Columbia tests actually triggered record snowfall across the Middle East and did much more than that.
     
    Royal Ark Misadventure: Waterspouts Hit Cyprus
     
    The British Admiralty sent a flotilla to the eastern Mediterranean, led by the flagship carrier Royal Ark, as part of MEIDEX. Arrays of antennae aboard the naval vessels, in tandem with a British military HAARP ground station in Limassol, created a standing wave of electromagnetic energy up through the atmosphere just off the southeast coast of Cyprus.
     
    As the Columbia passed overhead, its laser gun fired downward in four short bursts, just off the port (left) side of the British cruisers, which were stationed in a straight line.  Four waterspouts rose into the air, perfectly aligned columns of seawater, as shown in Royal Navy photos that were quickly suppressed by official censors.
     
    The waterspouts caused a massive downdraft of cold air from the higher atmosphere. Frigid air spiraled to the sea surface, much like bathtub water pouring into a drain. The Levant and Mideast became icy within hours.
     
    Meanwhile, the energetic spouts took on a life of their own, speeding toward the port of Limassol, apparently attracted by the extralong-frequency emissions from the British HAARP base. The man-made tornadoes made landfall, flinging cars into the sky, ripping away rooftops and killing a couple of residents. Greek Cypriot colleagues have confirmed that the HAARP station was operational at the time, and that RAF planes were used to dust the clouds in support of the Royal Ark flotilla and shuttle Columbia.
     
    Secrecy at Cape Canaveral Launch
     
    Prior to the Columbia launch for mission STS-107, NASA blocked any launch-site access to European scientists and Euro Space Agency staffers. Only Israelis were
    permitted inside the launch area, while the Europeans were confined to another building more than a mile away.
     
    The special importance of the Columbia mission was highlighted by the participation of Colonel Ilan Ramon, the Israeli wing commander who had taken out Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor. Ramon was and still is revered by Israeli air cadets as an avenging angel, the Jewish nation's noblest warrior and Zion's greatest hero.
     
    Going against a demigod is not easy, but I shall dare to say that Ramon definitely does not deserve the U.S. Congressional Aerospace Medal of Honor. For all  his boldness and prowess in the skies, his cockeyed toying with half-baked weapons killed six fellow members of the Columbia crew. On an ill-timed and thinly disguised military mission, Ramon died an accomplice to mass murder, considering the deadly toll on all sides of the illegal Iraq War. If Ramon was an angel, he is tragically a fallen one.
     
    I will undoubtedly receive more death threats from those blind believers in Zionist infallibility, and perhaps a bullet, but the truth of the Space Shuttle Columbia's fate belongs on the public record and not inside a locked file. More than any other event, including the Challenger disaster, the destruction of Columbia has brutally cut short humankind's exploration of space. Weapons, especially nuclear-powered systems, must be banned or Earth itself will be doomed. Space should be protected as a realm of peace so that it might remain a zone of wondrous discovery.
     
    On this 10th anniversary of the loss of Columbia, we should salute the courage and fortitude of the astronauts. May they venture forth as true angels of science in the spirit of cooperation among nations.
     
    Yoichi Shimatsu, former editor of The Japan Times Weekly in Tokyo, is a Hong Kong-based science writer.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Very interesting Wimpy, looks like the J-Team may have a little device made operational. A little further info:

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/12/111207-lightning-sprites-elves-thunderstorms-3d-video-science/

Sprites, brief flashes of light that occur during intense thunderstorms, appear to the human eye as long streamers of light, as seen above. But new digital images show these strands are only an illusion—sprites are actually made up of small, fast-moving balls of light.

In their fleeting lifespan, sprites burn five times brighter than Venus and can reach 37 miles (60 kilometers) in height.

Photograph courtesy H. C. Stenbaek-Nielsen, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Lightning Sprites, Elves Caught on Camera
Mysterious energy bursts recorded high above U.S. Midwest.


Richard A. Lovett in San Francisco

for National Geographic News

Published December 7, 2011

Flying above the U.S. Midwest, scientists using high-speed video cameras have caught the first 3-D images of sprites, elves, blue jets, and crawlers—in the form of lightning, that is.

First seen by scientists in 1989, sprites and their menagerie of exotically named kin are bursts of electrical energy that form about 50 miles (80 kilometers) above Earth, sometimes leaping all the way from the tops of thunderheads to outer space.

(Related: "Thunderstorms Shoot Antimatter Beams Into Space.")

Lightning sprites are huge but quick—they appear and are gone in only ten milliseconds, said Hans Stenbaek-Nielsen, a space physicist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

The phenomena are also extremely bright.

"They're brighter than the planet Venus," as seen from Earth, Stenbaek-Nielsen said this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

In fact, he added, sprites are so bright that it's amazing nobody saw them until 20 years ago, although, he noted, high-flying pilots had apparently spotted sprites before then but kept mum.

"No pilot was willing to admit they had seen anything up there, because it would cast doubt on their mental state," he said.

Last summer Stenbaek-Nielsen joined a team of thunderstorm chasers funded by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), which also provided camera equipment and technical staff for capturing pictures and video footage.

The team flew across the Midwest on a pair of Gulfstream jets, hunting out sprite-generating thunderstorms.

Watch video of sprites over the Midwest.

Also:

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Thunderstorms Shoot Antimatter Beams Into Space

Richard A. Lovett in Seattle, Washington

for National Geographic News

Published January 11, 2011

Thunderstorms can shoot beams of antimatter into space—and the beams are so intense they can be spotted by spacecraft thousands of miles away, scientists have announced.

Most so-called normal matter is made of subatomic particles such as electrons and protons. Antimatter, on the other hand, is made of particles that have the same masses and spins as their counterparts but with opposite charges and magnetic properties.

Recently, radiation detectors on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope lighted up for about 30 milliseconds with the distinctive signature of positrons, the antimatter counterparts of electrons.

Scientists were able to trace the concentrated burst of radiation to a lightning flash over Namibia, at least 3,000 miles (5,000 kilometers) away from the Earth-orbiting telescope, which was passing above Egypt at the time. (See an Africa map.)

"This is a fundamental new discovery about how our planet works," said Steven Cummer, a lightning researcher from Duke University who was not part of the study team.

"The idea that any planet has thunderstorms that can create antimatter and launch it into space is something out of science fiction. The fact that our own planet is doing it is truly amazing."

Intense Antimatter Beam a Shocker

Scientists already knew that thunderstorms can emit gamma rays—the most energetic form of light—and that gamma rays in turn can create positrons through a process called pair formation.

When a gamma ray with the right amount of energy interacts with an air atom, energy from the gamma ray is converted into matter, one electron and one positron, lightning expert Joseph Dwyer said yesterday during a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, Washington.

(Related: "Lightning Creates Particle Accelerators Above Earth.")

Scientists wouldn't have been surprised to see a few positrons accompanying any intense gamma ray burst, added Dwyer, of the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne.

But the lightning flash detected by Fermi appeared to have produced about 100 trillion positrons: "That's a lot," he said.

What seems to have happened is that positrons created by the lightning were herded into a tight beam by Earth's magnetic field, said study leader Michael Briggs of the University of Alabama, Huntsville.

The beam funneled positrons from the Namibian storm to the Fermi spacecraft.

A few milliseconds after hitting the spacecraft, the beam struck a more northerly section of Earth's magnetic field, Briggs added. This caused some of the positrons to bounce back the way they had come, hitting the spacecraft with a second beam, like an echo.

Antimatter a Clue to Lightning

Earth is constantly being bombarded by radiation from the sun, as well as cosmic rays from distant but violent events, such as powerful supernovae. (Also see "Black Holes Belch Universe's Most Energetic Particles.")

Considering the amount of positrons in the beam Fermi detected, the thunderstorm was briefly creating more radiation—in the form of positrons and gamma rays—than what hits Earth's atmosphere from all other cosmic sources combined, Dwyer noted.

The researcher has previously said, however, that the danger of thunderstorm radiation to airline travelers is extremely low.

Duke's Cummer added that nobody knows why some thunderstorms produce gamma rays while most do not.

"We really don't understand a lot of the details about how lighting works," he said. But discovering the creation of positrons "gives us a very, very important clue as to what's happening."

A paper about the discovery of antimatter in thunderstorms has been accepted for publication in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... nce-space/

[passnthru2]

a comment on the posting of Lightening Sprites and the Taboo: Blind Eye of Science about Ball Lightening.

in 1939 my mother was a 12 yr old child, she said she and her mother were in their little kitchen when lightening struck the stove pipe from their wood cook stove,

http://oncecrazy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/stove2.jpg 

they were Dust Bowl Oklahoma share croppers without electricity.  she said there was an unbelievable explosion of thunder and instantly all the round plates on the top of the stove hit the ceiling and a blazing blue white ball came out of the stove and bounced around the kitchen a couple times then bounced off the ceiling into a  wooden barrel full of water by the stove they carried water to from their rope and bucket well..  the barrel exploded, knocking them both down, all the water was turned into a dense white fog, very little water was on the floor.

I have read about ball lightening, no one will admit it because they will lose their grants and never get another.. even tho there are photos of them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4vV3KxQ16c

I think these are the source of some of UFO sightenings.. but definitely not the 30' diameter seamless mirrored ball I saw from 200' away, 150' off the ground, traveling silently up wind, reflecting what it was traveling over on its' bottom.

[ClarenceWalsh]

I know, Rense, but this article brought up memories of standing on my deck with a neighbor while waiting for the shuttles 'two' sonic booms that happen during all Kennedy Space Center landings.  Typical of most residents along the space coast of FL, I not only had my TV tuned to the NASA cable channel but waited in anticipation of possibly seeing the shuttle break through the clouds and hearing the booms.

Jay, my neighbor, and I looked with dread at each other when the precise landing time came and past.  I remember it was to be around 10 AM Eastern led lightingTime. I went into the house and only saw people staring at their computer screens on the NASA channel.  It was quite a few minutes later that a 'problem' was reported.

Back then NASA & the Kennedy Space Center was a customer of mine.  In fact, a week before and just prior to the launch, one of the people I dealt with at NASA made a peculiar comment about the "JEW BOY" who was going on this STS-107 mission.  Something about all the ridiculous fan fare over this Jew being on the Shuttle.  This was before I awoke to the jew problem.  His comments, particularly from a man born in Poland, were brave, made me quite curious and I instinctively felt uncomfortable & anxious that someone might over-hear his jew comments.

Interesting story......

http://rense.com/general95/anti-missle-test.html

Israeli Anti-Missile Test Blew
Up Space Shuttle Columbia
By Yoichi Shimatsu
Exclusive to Rense.com
2-2-13


Ten years ago, the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded on descent during a top-secret mission. At the time, my analysis of the cause of the blast drew support from American aerospace engineers along with angry death threats from zealots in the Israeli Air Force. Not only was the Israeli military incensed by my revealing that their faulty laser gun system had destroyed the U.S. space craft from within but also that the expose was seen as insulting to astronaut Ilan Ramon, the Israeli war hero who had earlier led the air strike on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor.
     
    The Challenger disaster of January 28, 1986, was immediately followed by the greatest cover-up in aerospace history, an information blackout that continues till now, even after the termination of the shuttle program. The deaths of seven crew members and scientists on mission STS-107 launched January 16, 2003, were not due to an accident at launch that scraped foam insulation panels from the ship's hull, as claimed by NASA. That is an out-and-out official lie, and many NASA insiders are well aware that the foam story does not fit the facts.
     
    The actual cause of the Columbia explosion was the malfunction of an anti-ballistic missile weapons systems designed by the Israel Defense Force, which had been secretly mounted aboard the shuttle in preparation for the Iraq War.
     
    The Israeli laser gun on the Columbia is not a sci-fi fantasy. It was the prototype for the current Boeing YAL-1 airborne laser testbed. Although the IDF laser shot was successful, bursting a test rocket midair over the White Sands Test Range in New Mexico, its firing overheated the nuclear-isotope power system. The result was a radioactive cloud that disintegrated the Columbia.
     
    The Smoking Gun of Americium-242
     
    Salvage crews searching for the shuttle debris scattered across Texas were warned about the potential presence of americium-242, a radioactive isotope that vigorously emits neutrons. Since this isotope (which is much more radioactive than the common varietal 241 used in smoke detectors) has no conceivable purpose on a civilian space shuttle, its presence indicated that the Columbia's secret tests involved a high-powered weapons system. A space engineer at Houston Center confirmed that isotopes including americium-242, neptunium and californium can be used to generate electrical power.
     
    The smoking gun evidence came to my desk in the form of photos from a Western intelligence service, which had intercepted satellite images from three Israeli mini-satellites (each smaller than a basketball). The observation satellites had earlier been launched from the Columbia to record the laser gun's effectiveness. The series of color images clearly showed that NASA lied about the Columbia catching fire below its left wing. The only heat from the left wing came momentarily from the laser gun, and not from friction during re-entry.
     
    The satellite photos show that a first blast, indicated by a small yellowish cloud of gas, occurred in the rear section of the spacecraft. Just milli-seconds later, the white-hot gas triggered the fuel in the Columbia's propulsion system, which exploded in a reddish fireball. The loss of the shuttle's rocket engines and tail section left the stunned astronauts watching helplessly as their spacecraft started to break apart into fiery pieces.
     
    Horizontal Shot at a Rising Rocket
     
    The Columbia explosion occurred just as the shuttle was passing from the Pacific over the Southern California coast along its landing trajectory. Taking into account the
    Earth's curvature, that position put the laser gun on a horizontal axis pointed directly at the White Sands Test Range in New Mexico. Ballistic missiles on launch are more easily shot down from sideways and not from above.
     
    Residents of New Mexico and Arizona heard one loud blast, later confusing it for the explosion that wrecked the shuttle. The damaged Columbia was then much too distant and too high for acoustic waves to reach the inland states. What the startled residents heard was the explosion of a White Sands test rocket that had been laser-shot. The anti-missile test result: An "A" for accuracy, but an "F" for foul-up.
     
    Seeing Through the Smoke and Dust
     
    The IDF laser gun was used on another test during the same STS-107 mission, involving weather engineering over the eastern Mediterranean and Mideast, just prior to the
                                                                                                               
    U.S. invasion of Iraq. That test, known as the MEIDEX, the Mediterranean Israel Dust Experiment, was purportedly to test an infrared camera in studies of dust clouds and high-atmosphere visible charges known as sprites and elves. (<!-- m -->http://spaceresearch.nasa.gov/sts-107/107_MEIDEX.pdf<!-- m -->)
     
    The larger goal, according to the official record, was to probe the impact of dust on climate change. The real objectives, however, were related to the impending Iraq War, and involved bizarre man-made weather effects.
     
    First, the infrared camera, mounted in the rear near the the americium generator, was used to search for camouflaged Iraqi SCUD mobile missile launchers, not only through dust clouds but also beneath the sort of dense petroleum smoke released in the first Gulf War.  My suggestion that an infrared laser had been put aboard to penetrate dense cloud cover was rebutted by a hail of criticism from George Bush supporters.
     
    Second, a much bigger objective was weather change, to create a cold front in advance of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The Pentagon was worried that American soldiers would wilt under the desert sun. The Columbia tests actually triggered record snowfall across the Middle East and did much more than that.
     
    Royal Ark Misadventure: Waterspouts Hit Cyprus
     
    The British Admiralty sent a flotilla to the eastern Mediterranean, led by the flagship carrier Royal Ark, as part of MEIDEX. Arrays of antennae aboard the naval vessels, in tandem with a British military HAARP ground station in Limassol, created a standing wave of electromagnetic energy up through the atmosphere just off the southeast coast of Cyprus.
     
    As the Columbia passed overhead, its laser gun fired downward in four short bursts, just off the port (left) side of the British cruisers, which were stationed in a straight line.  Four waterspouts rose into the air, perfectly aligned columns of seawater, as shown in Royal Navy photos that were quickly suppressed by official censors.
     
    The waterspouts caused a massive downdraft of cold air from the higher atmosphere. Frigid air spiraled to the sea surface, much like bathtub water pouring into a drain. The Levant and Mideast became icy within hours.
     
    Meanwhile, the energetic spouts took on a life of their own, speeding toward the port of Limassol, apparently attracted by the extralong-frequency emissions from the British HAARP base. The man-made tornadoes made landfall, flinging cars into the sky, ripping away rooftops and killing a couple of residents. Greek Cypriot colleagues have confirmed that the HAARP station was operational at the time, and that RAF planes were used to dust the clouds in support of the Royal Ark flotilla and shuttle Columbia.
     
    Secrecy at Cape Canaveral Launch
     
    Prior to the Columbia launch for mission STS-107, NASA blocked any launch-site access to European scientists and Euro Space Agency staffers. Only Israelis were
    permitted inside the launch area, while the Europeans were confined to another building more than a mile away.
     
    The special importance of the Columbia mission was highlighted by the participation of Colonel Ilan Ramon, the Israeli wing commander who had taken out Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor. Ramon was and still is revered by Israeli air cadets as an avenging angel, the Jewish nation's noblest warrior and Zion's greatest hero.
     
    Going against a demigod is not easy, but I shall dare to say that Ramon definitely does not deserve the U.S. Congressional Aerospace Medal of Honor. For all  his boldness and prowess in the skies, his cockeyed toying with half-baked weapons killed six fellow members of the Columbia crew. On an ill-timed and thinly disguised military mission, Ramon died an accomplice to mass murder, considering the deadly toll on all sides of the illegal Iraq War. If Ramon was an angel, he is tragically a fallen one.
     
    I will undoubtedly receive more death threats from those blind believers in Zionist infallibility, and perhaps a bullet, but the truth of the Space Shuttle Columbia's fate belongs on the public record and not inside a locked file. More than any other event, including the Challenger disaster, the destruction of Columbia has brutally cut short humankind's exploration of space. Weapons, especially nuclear-powered systems, must be banned or Earth itself will be doomed. Space should be protected as a realm of peace so that it might remain a zone of wondrous discovery.
     
    On this 10th anniversary of the loss of Columbia, we should salute the courage and fortitude of the astronauts. May they venture forth as true angels of science in the spirit of cooperation among nations.
     
    Yoichi Shimatsu, former editor of The Japan Times Weekly in Tokyo, is a Hong Kong-based science writer.

I think extensive missile and shuttle projects is biggest reason behind this.. We want to fight against enemies but creating more enemies with these misiles