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2024-02-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran Fires Ballistic Missile From A Shipping Container At Sea

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Posted by Frank G 2024-02-15 11:45|| || Front Page|| [31 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Gotta wonder

Poss as good as NKor's that hit the ocean.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-15 13:22|| 2024-02-15 13:22|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2024-02-15 13:38|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2024-02-15 13:50|| Front Page Top

#4 They're obviously trying to provoke us. What should se do now?

Posted by jpal 2024-02-15 13:50|| 2024-02-15 13:50|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2024-02-15 14:58|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2024-02-15 15:59|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2024-02-15 19:24|| Front Page Top

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