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Iran Fires Ballistic Missile From A Shipping Container At Sea
2024-02-15
[The Warzone] Gotta wonder how good their targetting would be
Posted by:Frank G

#7  ...as long as they confine their targets to the Northeast, we'll send a harshly worded statement.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-02-15 19:24  

#6   I recall the Soviets exploring the same for train and truck containers as a targeting dilemma for the west

That was a defensive maneuver to hide them. This is an offensive play. The nice thing about a missile in a shipping container is not the range or payload. It is the fact that it looks like a shipping container. Get close enough to the eastern US to lob an airburst EMP weapon over a city and you win that round.
Posted by: SteveS   2024-02-15 15:59  

#5  slow clap

We can deliver pallets of nuclear missiles to your country and send your ass back to the stone age.

Go home loser.
Posted by: DarthVader   2024-02-15 14:58  

#4  They're obviously trying to provoke us. What should se do now?
Posted by: jpal   2024-02-15 13:50  

#3  In the dim past I recall the Soviets exploring the same for train and truck containers as a targeting dilemma for the west. Is Russia selling old IRBM tech from the good old days?
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2024-02-15 13:50  

#2  Technically a phase of "rocket science," but not difficult math to take shipped container dimensions and work backwards to what size of missile could be fired from it and from that deduce range and payload numbers.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2024-02-15 13:38  

#1  Gotta wonder

Poss as good as NKor's that hit the ocean.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-02-15 13:22  

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