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| Iran tested new missile during summit | ||
| 2007-12-13 | ||
According to the report, the new missile is an improvement on the existing Shihab-3 missile. The Ashoura uses solid fuel instead of the Shihab's liquid fuel, giving it a significantly faster launch sequence which is harder to detect. Iranian Defense Minister Gen. Mostafa Muhammad-Najjar had announced the development of the new missile on the day of the summit, but had not specified whether it had actually been tested.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #7 ? I wonder. Solid fuel rockets with that built in Iran? Without a doubt it is a North Korean solid fueled IRBM. The name is fluid but TaepoDong-X and Musudan have been mentioned. It has been sold to Solid fuel rocket tech has been sold to the Iranians by the Russians and Chinese. Same for guidance tech (add Germans here). This has been passed on to the Syrians. The Iranians so far have been producing smaller solid fueled rockets (e.g. Fajr series. Great for hitting Israel from Syria or Leb) but it is only a matter of time before they master the production of solid fueled (and mobile) IRBMs and ICBMs. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-12-13 12:45 |
| #6 I have known some of these (CIA etc.) people and none of them were idiots. Egotists, yes. Self-serving, yes. Entangled in a horribly inefficient bureaucracy, certainly. But not idiots. And there are SO MANY of them that even if they were a legion of monkeys banging on typewriters they'd have written at least half of 'Hamlet' by now. We're all distracted by the garbage, but there is good work being done too - and we are all better off not knowing what it is. For example, since 9/12/01 EVERYONE has recognized the risks of having WMD smuggled in - via underinspected containers or other, and very slowly a minimal improvement in detection capability has been implemented. My opinion is that ALL of that public effort is just pork for the politicians, but that something much more effective and high tech is in use in secret. As with my description of CIA personnel, politicians are arrogant, self-serving and egotistical, but NOT idiots, and they live here too; what would be the point of having all that power (and corruption) if you knew the chances were you'd be killed by Islamofascists before you had a chance to enjoy it? (Some are that stupid or blind, but it is not possible they all are.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-12-13 12:43 |
| #5 Ditto Excalibur... our true saving grace is that 0our enemies are inept. last week while discussing how an x-ray machine works with my third grader and how it is supposed to make it 'safe' on the airplanes... he offered me a easily workable plan to get a bomb through that i can tell would work. thank god our enemies are enept because an eight year old can foil the TSA 'security' |
| Posted by: Abu do you love 2007-12-13 11:44 |
| #4 Glenmore, the only thing saving us is the marginally greater incompetence of our enemies. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-12-13 09:17 |
| #3 "So hey CIA, you're the smart ones" Steve, The public image of the CIA is so pathetic it can't possibly be true, right? Please tell me it's like Peter Falk's 'Colombo'. Because if they are really so useless then the 'troothers' must be right that the whole Islamofascist terrorist thing is made up, since any remotely competent terrorist could have pulled off something significant here in the past six years. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-12-13 07:35 |
| #2 Bought and assembled is probably a better description than developed. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-12-13 06:28 |
| #1 The Ashoura uses solid fuel instead of the Shihab's liquid fuel, ? I wonder. Solid fuel rockets with that built in Iran? |
| Posted by: Thomas Woof 2007-12-13 05:50 |