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2024-04-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Roughly 50% of the ballistic missiles fired by Iran failed to launch or crashed before reaching their target

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Posted by Fred 2024-04-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [402 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Projectile Dysfunction - Common among muslim men. That's why they beat their wymyns

Posted by Frank G 2024-04-15 00:11|| 2024-04-15 00:11|| Front Page Top

A U.S. Defense Official has stated that all 3 of the Iranian Medium-Range Ballistic Missiles attempting to Target an Airbase in Southern Israel that were Downed last night by the United States, were Intercepted by U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-Class Guided-Missiles Destroyers in the… pic.twitter.com/zEBy10CUqM
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) April 14, 2024

Posted by badanov 2024-04-15 00:21|| 2024-04-15 00:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Lotta bucks, but no Buck Rogers.

Posted by badanov 2024-04-15 00:22|| 2024-04-15 00:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Lotta bucks, but no Buck Rogers.

Great line from the Right Stuff

Posted by DarthVader 2024-04-15 00:35|| 2024-04-15 00:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Boeing's Iranian contracts now in danger of cancellation.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-15 02:14|| 2024-04-15 02:14|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm sure the Russians feel confident with their Iranian drone purchases.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-04-15 07:21|| 2024-04-15 07:21|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ As I understand, the Russians have moved on from their original Persian purchases and are now rolling their own, both large and small.

It looks like Israel & Friends had enough air defense capability to absorb the attack. I wonder what would have happened if Iran was able to competently launch everything they planned.

Posted by SteveS 2024-04-15 08:14|| 2024-04-15 08:14|| Front Page Top

#8 As ballistic missles intentionally crash when they reach their target, how do you tell the difference?
"We successfully hit targets we didn't aim at."

Posted by ed in texas 2024-04-15 08:33|| 2024-04-15 08:33|| Front Page Top

#9 If everyone else is going to launch conventional ballistic missiles, we should too. Just to erase that "we thought it was a nuke" excuse.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-04-15 08:39|| 2024-04-15 08:39|| Front Page Top

#10 "Our German engineers are better than their German engineers"

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-04-15 17:52|| 2024-04-15 17:52|| Front Page Top

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