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Iran has more missiles than it can hide: General (Hossein Salami)
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 1/1/2016 | AFP

Posted on 01/01/2016 9:35:44 AM PST by NormsRevenge

Tehran (AFP) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards have so many missiles they don't know where to hide them, a senior commander said at Friday prayers, after the United States threatened to impose fresh sanctions.

"We lack enough space in our stockpiles to house our missiles," said General Hossein Salami, the Guards' deputy, as a row with the US over Iran's ballistic missile programme deepened.

"Hundreds of long tunnels are full of missiles ready to fly to protect your integrity, independence and freedom," he told worshippers in Tehran, promising to never "stop developing our defence deterrent".

Iranian state television aired in October unprecedented footage of such an underground missile base.

The general's comments came after reports that the US had planned -- but later shelved -- to unveil a fresh round of sanctions following two recent missile tests by the Islamic republic.

The mooted financial penalties on companies and individuals in Iran, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates, for apparent links to Tehran's missile programme, highlighted worsening US-Iran relations.

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To: Lazamataz
That beats our wiener


41 posted on 01/01/2016 10:27:29 AM PST by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
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To: JudyinCanada

That’s another one. The GI Joe hostage photo, complete with accessories.


42 posted on 01/01/2016 10:30:22 AM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: DesertRhino

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/irans-faux-stealth-fighter-makes-embarrassing-second-appearance-5026447fd2fa

Somebody makes a 1/72 plastic kit of the thing.
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/qaher-313-conqueror-—catalog.html


43 posted on 01/01/2016 10:30:49 AM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: OKSooner

However, if ST were made today, there would be only muslims in it ...


44 posted on 01/01/2016 10:39:12 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: OKSooner

Hitler thought he could break the will of the British people to resist. He never imagined the British would be in a position to retaliate.

Every ton of bombs scattered over England by the Luftwaffe’s inaccurate and indiscriminate bombing was requited by 350 tons dropped much more precisely by the RAF and USAAF. The British were largely out for revenge, the U.S. were looking for military targets, but both had a mix of targets.

The U.S. Eighth Air Force targeted Berlin, because it was the only city that the Germans would defend after 1943. The point of the attacks was to destroy the Luftwaffe’s fighter wing preparatory to D-Day. Berlin was attacked to open the way to Normandy.

In 1944, German fighter losses prior to D-Day were severe:

Month %Fighters %Pilots
Feb 33 18
March 56 22
April 43 20
May 50 25

German pilot losses could not be replaced. They had no pipeline to supply well trained new pilots, and many instructors became causalities themselves.


45 posted on 01/01/2016 10:39:49 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Islam is the greened eyed monster that doth mock the meat it feeds upon.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

46 posted on 01/01/2016 11:03:20 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

For some reason those photoshopped rockets reminds me of what you get when you play “Jingle bells, jingle bells” backwards:

“Missile revolt, missile revolt”

(strange but true)

;^)


47 posted on 01/01/2016 11:03:57 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: OKSooner

Takes 2 years minimum to train a combat pilot. Accelerated training programs just got a lot of newbies killed.

The Japanese solution was the Kamikaze — a human cruise missile. Even those pilots we so bad that they had trouble finding & hitting the targets.


48 posted on 01/01/2016 11:10:44 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: alloysteel
While terrifying and disruptive, the damage they did in no serious manner deterred the British one bit, and probably stiffened their resolve sufficiently to firebomb several German targets, with nary a twinge of conscience.

The V(engenace) weapons were a response to Allied firebombing of civilian population centers.

49 posted on 01/01/2016 11:44:51 AM PST by Gunslingr3
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To: Gunslingr3
The V(engenace) weapons were a response to Allied firebombing of civilian population centers.

Actually, the V-weapons and the RAF's incendiary attacks against civilian targets weren't "responses" of any sort.

Instead, both were a recognition of the existing navigational state-of-the-art. Bomber Command was incapable of performing precision bombing at night and began attacking city-sized targets because that was the limit of their accuracy.

Similarly, the accuracy of the V-weapons was limited to city-sized targets. So, that's what they were aimed at.

50 posted on 01/01/2016 11:57:16 AM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“Without small atomic warheads, ballistic missiles are not practical weapons.”

The Nazis were working on nuclear weapons. IIRC their initial estimate of warhead size would have been within the limits of the V-2/A4 payload (1000kg). They also had the standard arsenal of chemical and biological weapons.

And who’s to say that if the Allied bombing campaign hadn’t been successful that we wouldn’t have resorted to missiles with HE warheads?


51 posted on 01/01/2016 12:29:44 PM PST by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: PLMerite

Because ballistic missiles with HE warheads, especially with the accuracy of the V2, are ineffective weapons. They consume more resources to build than the damage they inflict.


52 posted on 01/01/2016 12:39:59 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Islam is the greened eyed monster that doth mock the meat it feeds upon.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I am sure we could clear the shelves for him.


53 posted on 01/01/2016 12:49:57 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Farmer Dean

Give it some time as it will happen yet. As long as (i)slam exists rest assured there will never be any peace.


54 posted on 01/01/2016 1:13:46 PM PST by saintgermaine (Is she somehow related)
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To: DesertRhino

It exaggerates for dramatic effect but its purposes are to scare Israel’s enemies and create sympathy among its friends, IMHO.

I call it propaganda and disinformation in support of Israel, a traditional tactic of war.

This report in particular is designed to create a new sense of what the war in Syria is about that subtly points out Russia’s actions to help Assad are not always in Israel’s best interests.


55 posted on 01/01/2016 1:35:57 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“Because ballistic missiles with HE warheads, especially with the accuracy of the V2, are ineffective weapons. They consume more resources to build than the damage they inflict.”

But they were also intended to be terror weapons. You’re not worried whether they’re accurate enough to hit the aircraft factory, you’re concerned that one is going to randomly land on your house. The Germans were not any better able to hit Britain than with V-1s and V-2s. And the possibility existed that they could switch to chemical or biological warheads at any time.


56 posted on 01/01/2016 1:40:23 PM PST by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Has anyone thought to attach a GPS device to the reporter’s car?


57 posted on 01/01/2016 6:06:14 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: DesertRhino
In fact, the -entire- V2 program cost about the same as the Manhattan project and produced the results of about 2 Air raids from the 8th Air Force.

Yeah, but when we won the war we swiped the technology (and some of the technologists, too) and mated it with atomic warheads to make ICBMs...

58 posted on 01/01/2016 6:08:04 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
The question in the United States in the 1950’s was “Can the AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) make ballistic missiles practical?” Without small atomic warheads, ballistic missiles are not practical weapons.

Even Ernst Stavro Blofeld knew this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qraA12BrzVo (the relevant quote is at 0:39)

59 posted on 01/01/2016 6:16:12 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: okie01
Actually, the V-weapons and the RAF's incendiary attacks against civilian targets weren't "responses" of any sort.

You're incorrect. It was actually after the bombing of Lubeck that Hitler ordered mass production of the V-2 (before which he was uninterested). The Germans had turned their efforts away from bombing Britain to fight the Russians. It was only after the concentration on civilians by the British that he sought to respond and diverted resources to do so.

60 posted on 01/01/2016 10:29:59 PM PST by Gunslingr3
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