My God, we've done it to ourselves yet again!
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| Iran to fire '11,000 rockets in minute' if attacked |
| 2007-10-20 |
| Iran warned on Saturday it would fire off 11,000 rockets at enemy bases within the space of a minute if the United States launched military action against the Islamic republic. "In the first minute of an invasion by the enemy, 11,000 rockets and cannons would be fired at enemy bases," said a brigadier general in the elite Revolutionary Guards, Mahmoud Chaharbaghi. "This volume and speed of firing would continue," added Chaharbaghi, who is commander of artillery and missiles of the Guards' ground forces, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. The United States has never ruled out attacking Iran to end its defiance over the controversial Iranian nuclear programme, which the US alleges is aimed at making nuclear weapons but Iran insists is entirely peaceful. Iran has for its part vowed never to initiate an attack but has also warned of a crushing response to any act of aggression against its soil. "If a war breaks out in the future, it will not last long because we will rub their noses in the dirt," said Chaharbaghi. "Now the enemy should ask themselves how many of their people they are ready to have sacrificed for their stupidity in attacking Iran," he said. Iranian officials have repeatedly warned the military would target the bases of US forces operating in neighbouring Iraq and Afghanistan in the event of any attack and already has these sites under close surveillance. Chaharbaghi said that the Guards would soon receive "rockets with a range of 250 kilometres (155 miles)" whereas the current range of its rockets is 150 kilometres (91 miles). "We have identified our targets and with a close surveillance of targets, we can respond to the enemy's stupidity immediately," Chaharbaghi added. He said that the Guards' weapons were spread out throughout the country and so would not be affected by any isolated US strikes against military facilities. The Guards are Iran's elite ideological army and responsible for its most significant weapons such as the longer range Shahab-3 missile which has Israel and US bases in the Middle East within its range. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #25 72 hours with a concntrated strike woudl be enough to demolish every airfield, hit every HQ, and then drop every major bridge span, every major power transmission & switching center, every power plant, every major phone exchange, every large water processing plant and major water pumping/storage area in large urban areas, and every TV and radio station broadcast facility in Iran, assuming full use of cruise and other assets. Also included would ben most of the important road intersections as well, especially in urban centers. Oh and the refinery would be gone as well. They'd have no power, phones, transportation or water. CHolera woudl be rampant within a month, and within 6 months without aid, you'd have 10 million refugees, and several million starving. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2007-10-20 21:33 |
| #24 WE'RE DOOMED! Us rocketers have managed to launch only 200 Estes Mosquitos at once. Can Balsa Machining make up enough nose cones quick enough if the Chinese cut off Estes supply of those new fangled plastic noseones? I guess I better start hoarding 1/2A's. |
| Posted by: bruce 2007-10-20 18:24 |
| #23 Tehran Tom, the Iran counterpart to Baghdad Bob, speaks. Some people just don't know when to STFU. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-10-20 18:00 |
| #22 LOL, Frank. I just had a vision of, well, you know - rocketing out of their ... uh, pants. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-10-20 16:23 |
| #21 apparently "rocket" is a euphemism for "shitting in our pants" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-10-20 16:17 |
| #20 Uh huh. And what will they do in the second minute? Get incinerated. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-10-20 15:29 |
| #19 Iran to fire '11,000 rockets in minute' if attacked Uh huh. And what will they do in the second minute? |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2007-10-20 15:24 |
| #18 one wonders why the Mid-Eastern types never every learn any useful lessons. Cause it's unislamic. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-10-20 15:23 |
| #17 What, Iran to launch 11,000 bottle rockets per minute as long as matches don't run out ? Quick, somebody make an oil painting of that and call it 'Iran's Last Stand'. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-10-20 15:11 |
| #16 We've been exporting rocket tech to Iran for years. My God, we've done it to ourselves yet again! |
| Posted by: doc 2007-10-20 14:03 |
| #15 Two weeks? Two months? My best guess-- and it's just a guess-- would be somewhere around a month. You're talking about the time until we stop operations, and I agree it will be longer than 4 days. I was talking about the time in which there is active resistance to the type of war we will probably fight with Iran, exclusively in the air. If we were to actually go in on the ground, it would take much longer and be pretty difficult. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-10-20 13:59 |
| #14 ran warned on Saturday it would fire off 11,000 rockets at enemy bases within the space of a minute Whoa! Just imagine how much they'd have to pay for the carbon offsets! |
| Posted by: mrp 2007-10-20 13:56 |
| #13 Nimble, one wonders why the Mid-Eastern types never every learn any useful lessons. They have learned their lessons very well. America and her allies are afraid to utterly defeat them and will stop short of victory every time, allowing the match to be reset for a replay. They have never been defeated in the way that the South was defeated in the Civil War, Germany, Poland Russia, Italy and Japan were defeated in WWII. You have to go back to the 30 years wars to find equal devastation to societies. The way we can wage war is not the normal way people wage war. And the Middle East has yet to see it. So, it relies on the traditional way of waging war going back millenia which is to bluster like this for years on end. When blows are finally struck, an accomodation is reached quickly, before either side is thoroughly defeated and resume the trash talking. We are the ones who haven't learned the lesson which is that if we are going to get in a war we should be in it to utterly defeat our enemy, not to play some diplomatic boxing match. Fighting by half-measures is what's stupid, not trash talking easily intimidated civilians. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-10-20 13:56 |
| #12 "Iran to fire '11,000 rockets in minute' if attacked" Uh-huh. Suuuurrrrre they will. Guess they'll try.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-10-20 13:54 |
| #11 For heaven's sake, what's next, "All your base are belong to us"? |
| Posted by: Chuckles Jaise7272 2007-10-20 13:39 |
| #10 "I'm sure it will be the Mother of All Battles and we will have finished it in 4 days, if it ever happens." Four days sounds optimistic. But seriously, I wonder: how long would it likely take us, without resorting to nuclear weapons (bunker-buster or otherwise), without diverting the attention of more than, say, 5% of our ground forces currently in Iraq and Afghanistan and without losing more than a couple dozen American casualties, to reduce Iran to essentially a pre-17th century level of existence-- no water, no sanitation, no energy production, no motorized transportation-- if we chose to do so? Two weeks? Two months? My best guess-- and it's just a guess-- would be somewhere around a month. Mahmoud Chaharbaghi oughtta STFU. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2007-10-20 13:32 |
| #9 Sounds like Saddam. He's dead isn't he. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-10-20 13:32 |
| #8 Useful learning is not in the book, 3. |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2007-10-20 13:23 |
| #7 Nimble, one wonders why the Mid-Eastern types never every learn any useful lessons. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-10-20 13:21 |
| #6 "We got sonic electronic ballbreakers!" --- Private Hudson, Colonial Marine Corps |
| Posted by: badanov 2007-10-20 13:20 |
| #5 Meaningless Near Eastern pre-battle bravado. I'm sure it will be the Mother of All Battles and we will have finished it in 4 days, if it ever happens. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-10-20 13:19 |
| #4 Iran to fire '11,000 rockets in minute' if attacked we have a couple of units too! EMT Devices And a s'hit load of attack missles, ARTY and bombs our selves. IIRC we have Dial a Yield Nukes. Click Neutrons aplenty. & SuperSized Secrete Stuff also... |
| Posted by: Red Dawg 2007-10-20 13:08 |
| #3 Charhardehar is a maroon. I'm waiting to hear from the real expert, Gen. Salami. |
| Posted by: Phinater Thraviger 2007-10-20 13:04 |
| #2 The first thing the Iranians will see will be their command, control and communications sites disappearing in a series of large explosions. Unless they have some kind of negative message ("If you don't hear from me, launch the attack") in place, they won't be able to issue the orders to launch the missiles. |
| Posted by: Rambler 2007-10-20 13:03 |
| #1 Probably ture, if not quite in the manner they mean. Within a minute of a US attack 11,000 rockets will be blown up on their launchers, with another 11,000 detonating in armories every minute or so afterwards, until they are gone. |
| Posted by: CAIR lawyer 2007-10-20 12:42 |