Iran Has Remote-Controlled Launch Pads

[Purveyor]

Source: Jerusalem Post

Preparing for a possible American or Israeli strike on its nuclear installations, Iran has developed a remote-controlled launch system that can be used to operate dozens of unmanned Shihab ballistic missile launchers in underground bunkers, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

After recent upgrades, the Shihab-3 ballistic missiles are believed to have a target range of 2,000-kilometers. The missile was initially developed with a 1,300-km. range.

According to informed Western sources, the remote-controlled launch system was developed by the Iranians in conjunction with North Korea and by employing Chinese technology. Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander Yayha Rahim Safavi said recently that Iran had equipped its Shihab missiles with an advanced guidance system that can control them after they are launched.

Israeli defense officials recently said if Iran were attacked, it would most likely respond by launching Shihab missiles at Israel or US targets in the region. The officials said Israel's Arrow missile defense system was capable of intercepting all of Iran's operational missiles.




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[BlackHawk706867]

1. That ought to give both the US and Israel cause for concern...

It might just help dissuade any kind of attack they might be planning...

ww

[iconoclastic cat]

2. You'd think so, but soon Bushco will claim they're nukes. nt

[HereSince1628]

4. Methinks it's more likely to actually prompt a US offensive.

How would ordinary citizens verify anything about remote controlled missles? Or missles with 800 miles greater range?

They can't.

We are all in the dark and at the mercy of the sabre-rattlers.

[Tempest]

3. "According to informed Western sources"

And did you notice how they included the other two boogeymen, China and North Korea?

Count me in in with the other skeptics.

[The Stranger]

14. Would Richard Perle be considered "informed" and "Western"?

[Tempest]

15. Only after he's given himself a spit comb over

Otherwise, he's just another neo-clown.


Oh wait, that was Wolfowitz. All those assholes look the same to me.

[bemildred]

5. So they sent a press release to JPost to spread the word for them? nt

[dipsydoodle]

8. My thoughts too

:rofl:

[Posteritatis]

6. Uhh, so? Isn't this kinda thing 50-60 years old by now? (nt)

[Hydra]

7. We have to go to war!!!

:puke:

This smells like a pure propaganda piece.

[closeupready]

18. I agree - it does seem like propaganda.

n/t

[leftchick]

9. 162,000 US sitting ducks

within range.

[JTFrog]

10. And probably

close to a million troops between China and Russia that are just aching to intervene on Iran's behalf. Although China will destroy us financially first.

[endarkenment]

17. These are conventional weapons not really useful

against hardened military targets. They are mostly good for lobbing into cities in order to scare the crap out of the civilian population, as in the missile wars of the late stages of the Iran-Iraq war.

[JonathanInTelAviv]

11. These guys are playing with fire n/t

[The Sushi Bandit]

12. one word... BULLSHIT!!

sick and tired of war flamers

[RethugAssKicker]

13. BS.... and the Iraqis had mobile chemical labs !

more us and Israeli war dreams....

[EnricoFermi]

26. My thoughts exactly

This news item coming from a country that has been running demonstration bombing runs near the Iranian border.

[seemslikeadream]

16. According to informed Western sources

I wonder WHO was informing those informed Western sources?

[sarcasmo]

19. Israel should hope our Dictator doesn't invade Iran.

All of Iran's missiles and any other missiles in the middle east are pointed Israels way.

[JonathanInTelAviv]

22. But those missiles aren't nuclear-tipped - yet n/t

[sarcasmo]

25. Welcome to D/U and I sure hope it does come to WWIII but is sure reads like our Dictator wants to

make it happen.

[ihelpu2see]

20. is that like Iraq had mobile biologic wepon labs!!!! lol eom

[HuffleClaw]

21. warmongering crap

why anyone is falling for this crap i do not know.

[Chomskyite]

23. Gives me pause

Jerusalem Post is not exactly a Likud paper.

But I'm not sure how Iran's ability to guide missiles once they're in the sky is that much of an advantage over missiles guided by previous means.

[slackmaster]

24. I found a picture of one of those launchers