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2008-08-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by 3dc 2008-08-17 14:11|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 The Safir

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50-100 kg to LEO?

Posted by john frum 2008-08-17 14:22|| 2008-08-17 14:22|| Front Page Top

#2 The Safirs

Truff to Power:

They are the Drop Fuel Tanks from the new and Fantastic Iranian 10,000 MPH Jet.

/:) and I never fib either...

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2008-08-17 14:36|| 2008-08-17 14:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Thanks John!

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2008-08-17 14:40|| 2008-08-17 14:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Gee. I wonder what else they could launch with this.

Would this qualify as the ultimate generation of a Shahab, or is it only capable of launching satellites that happen to weigh as much as a nuke?

Posted by gorb 2008-08-17 14:51|| 2008-08-17 14:51|| Front Page Top

#5 The satellite is a dummy, as Iran's admitting now.

I am not sure that Kremlin is pleased that Iran displays ballistic capability, at this particular juncture in time, in the context of the missile defense system for Poland.

Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-08-17 15:37|| 2008-08-17 15:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Test launch for an EMP weapon? Assuming they can build borrow steal an EMP weapon.....

Posted by Alaska Paul back from SE Alaska 2008-08-17 15:57|| 2008-08-17 15:57|| Front Page Top

#7 The bare minimum payload for carrying a nuke is about 1100 pounds. Practically speaking, Iran has the technology to mass produce missiles capable of that sized payload.

Importantly, if North Korea had provided Iran with enriched uranium and plutonium, Iran could have long ago made a dozen or more nuclear weapons.

In use, Iran would then spend most of its resources to make dozens of conventional ballistic weapons, to deplete the anti-ballistic missiles in a first salvo, then use its nukes in a second or third salvo.

These missiles might even be designed to break, so that two or more anti-missiles would be used to shoot down the different sections. This happened in the first Gulf War.

All of this assumes that most targets are theater, and not strategic.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-08-17 16:16|| 2008-08-17 16:16|| Front Page Top

#8 These missiles might even be designed to break,

A poor man's decoy?

Posted by john frum 2008-08-17 17:30|| 2008-08-17 17:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Inshallah duct-tape application

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-08-17 18:08|| 2008-08-17 18:08|| Front Page Top

#10 "The Safir (Ambassador) satellite carrier was launched today and for the first time we successfully launched a dummy satellite into orbit," Reza Taghizadeh, head of the Iranian Aerospace Organisation, told state television.

Posted by john frum 2008-08-17 19:46|| 2008-08-17 19:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Iran would then.....

Exactly, it is written.

Posted by .5MT 2008-08-17 20:13|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-08-17 20:13|| Front Page Top

#12 I don't think you'd have to worry about an EMP for some time. We exploded over 800 nuclear devices in the years after WWII, of various sizes. An EMP is the advanced class, and requires DEVELOPEMENT, by exploding dozens and dozens of devices. I don't even think we have a special purpose EMP nuke. There is a moderate EMP effect during any nuke explosion though, I think.

Posted by Don Vito Snusort2682 2008-08-17 21:06|| 2008-08-17 21:06|| Front Page Top

#13 I don't even think we have a special purpose EMP nuke.

with all due respect, Don Vito. We do. We also have enhanced radiation nukes (i.e.: neutron bombs) despite Jimmy *spit* Carter's direction otherwise. Both are natural side effects of nukes, and can be fine-tuned for strategic effect

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-08-17 21:49|| 2008-08-17 21:49|| Front Page Top

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