Posted on 06/20/2017 3:58:40 AM PDT by huldah1776
'This is what they have to show for 30 years of missile development? Even Hezbollah can do better'
Israeli analyst says security sources ‘amazed’ at poor performance: 3 missiles fell in Iraq, and only one hit its target
Iran’s much-vaunted missile strike on Islamic State targets in Syria late Sunday was a flop, with six of the seven medium-range missiles it fired failing to hit their target, Israeli sources said Monday.
Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard, a paramilitary force in charge of the country’s missile program, said it launched six Zolfaghar ballistic missiles from the western provinces of Kermanshah and Kurdistan. The missiles flew over Iraq before striking what the Guard called an Islamic State command center and suicide car bomb operation in Deir el-Zour, according to Tehran. The Fars semi-state news agency quoted sources saying at least 360 terrorists were killed.
But sources quoted in Hebrew media on Monday evening said three of what they said were the seven ballistic missiles didn’t even make it as far as Syria, falling to earth in Iraq, and only one of the seven landed in its intended target, an Islamic State base in Syria’s mostly IS-held Deir Ezzor province. Another of the seven landed hundreds of yards away, in the city of Mayadin.
“If the Iranians were trying to show their capabilities and to signal to Israel and to the Americans that these missiles are operational, the result was rather different,” Channel 2 analyst Ehud Yaari said. It was “a flop,” said Ya’ari. “A failure.” Still, he added dryly, “it photographed well.”
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1. Practice is a key a part of development. Don’t laugh this off cause they missed. They will improve and this will help them.
2. Shocking cause if they launched missiles into U.S troops over there I can easily see Trump retaliating.
>>2. Shocking cause if they launched missiles into U.S troops over there I can easily see Trump retaliating.<<
At this point, everybody is shooting at everybody else and no body even knows who’s who.
We need to get the hell out of there like, right now.
Yup. Have only to look at the development of our own PGM-11 Redstone missiles to see how that worked. Mostly the early ones blew up and we had the advantage of having many of the guys from the V-2 rocket program jumpstarting development. It took us three years to get missiles that mostly didn’t explode on the pad and the missiles still weren’t done by then.
The Iranians have the benefit of 60 years of general technical progress and being able to buy stuff on the consumer market that not long ago would have been controlled munition-grade exports.
I thought about the practice makes perfect and I am very concerned about our boots. They are basically surrounded.
“Another of the seven landed hundreds of yards away, in the city of Mayadin.”
With a 50kt nuke aboard, my guess is that would be the equal of a direct hit on a soft target.
“Practice makes perfect.”
That’s the Iranian point of view, here. Also, it’s an external projection of force, even if it was ineffective this time.
Precisely.
On another note: Iran's threats to hit Tel Aviv are sounding pretty hollow now, so if Israel has been thinking Pre-Emptive it could be time to dust off those plans before the Iranians make improvements.
It’s all crap over there due to Obama and Hillary. And she blames the Russians for her loss to Trump.
The missiles must be sourced from the same contractor that builds Iran’s plywood jet fighter.
50kt == twice the yield of Fat Man (Nagasaki) ... very feasible with a fission weapon.
Yes that is what I was thinking. A one stage weapon can be more in yield but 50k sounds more realistic. These clowns are really dangerous but the have a history of over playing there hand and for being smug. Best example was the sultan who though ghengis Kahn was not a worthy threat.
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