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| Japanese Machinery Builds Iranian Missiles |
| 2006-12-05 |
| Japan was embarrassed to discover that a Japanese machinery manufacturer had illegally shipped a jet-mill grinder to Iran in 1999, and that the equipment (which uses highly compressed air to shape solid materials) was being used in the manufacture of solid fuel rockets for Iran's ballistic missiles. The machinery was cheap ($129,000) and does have non-weapons uses. But the manufacturer did not ask permission of the government to export the gear, and is thus been punished by not being allowed to export anything for two years. Japan, Germany and the United States are all producers of precision manufacturing equipment that is needed to produce modern weapons. All three countries have to be careful who they export to, as there are often no other sources for some of this precision equipment. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #5 You've got a lot to live, And Pepsi's got give! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2006-12-05 18:35 |
| #4 "Great holes have been dug where Earth's pores Ought to suffice, And things have learnt to walk that ought to Crawl." ______ "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange eons even death may die." |
| Posted by: borgboy 2006-12-05 16:27 |
| #3 Ia! Ia! Cthulhu ftagn! |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2006-12-05 09:26 |
| #2 Of course, we Rantburgists know that these machines are loaded with secret spy gadgets that tell us every detail of the items being worked on, along with the identities of the workers and the GPS coordinates of the facility. If I were the mullahs (which I thank Cthulhu I am not), I would order them destroyed forthwith and go back to hand filing. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2006-12-05 06:12 |
| #1 Weird as it might sound, this is one of the best reasons why Japan must take on the onus of becoming an East Asian nuclear power. Between exporting low-noise propeller machine tools and centrifuge milling equipment, one of the few ways for the Nipponese to expiate their sins is to become an anti-Chinese nuclear base. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-12-05 00:31 |