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2008-07-18 Science & Technology

U.S. Says Iran Has Missile That Could Hit Europe

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-07-18 08:42|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 For further information:

http://tinyurl.com/5lqvql

About the Shahab-3 missile.

http://tinyurl.com/aalb3

Shahab-4. (Check out range map on page).

http://tinyurl.com/5hmrjo

Shahab-5/IRIS.

http://tinyurl.com/6jd2km

Shahab-6/IRSL-X-4.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-07-18 08:51|| 2008-07-18 08:51|| Front Page Top

#2 So now, they're also going to threaten attack on Europe in case of "unprovoked Zionist attack"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-07-18 08:54|| 2008-07-18 08:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Iranian wunderweapons have always seemed to have a Wile E Coyote/Acme vibe to them. Impressive looking and with high hopes, but never quite living up to the hype.

That said, You just can't take a chance on them not working given the stakes with potentially nuclear tipped missiles. Call it a reverse Pascal's wager.

Posted by Bin thinking again 2008-07-18 09:14|| 2008-07-18 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 You'd think the EUnicks would be worried about this.
But they think they can talk their way out of anything.
At any rate, they just became larger stakeholders in this gambit, like it or not.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-18 10:23|| 2008-07-18 10:23|| Front Page Top

#5 You'd think the EUnicks would be worried about this.

Well, the Iranians can't hit Paris or Brussels yet, so why panic? They have a noon martini and caviar lunch to go too.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-07-18 10:36|| 2008-07-18 10:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Do they need assistance with guidance or targeting?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-07-18 11:06|| 2008-07-18 11:06|| Front Page Top

#7 The thing is, they got these from the Norks, who got them from the Chinese. So they are not indigenously invented, and may actually be fairly capable.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-18 12:15|| 2008-07-18 12:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Wile E Coyote/Acme vibe

That rings.

Posted by .5MT 2008-07-18 12:40|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-07-18 12:40|| Front Page Top

#9 The photos I saw last week of some of their "missile" firings were late-50s technology rockets. Even those were probably photo-shopped. I wouldn't just ignore them, but I'm not going to get excited about it - now. Europe, on the other hand, needs to pull their heads out of their collective nether regions and take a long, hard look at the world as it is, not as they wish it to be. They have some serious problems, and they're getting worse daily. Not doing anything about them, or to prepare for even more dangerous future problems, is national suicide.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-07-18 13:27|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-07-18 13:27|| Front Page Top

#10 There is no photoshop.

Posted by .5MT 2008-07-18 14:05|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-07-18 14:05|| Front Page Top

#11 Of course the EUniks can talk their way out of it.

What's so hard to understand about "We surrender!"

Better red (or green, or dhimmi, or......) than dead.

Posted by AlanC 2008-07-18 15:35|| 2008-07-18 15:35|| Front Page Top

#12 And Iran has thousands of Euro trained engineers. Remember Frankenstein?

Posted by Snerelet Untervehr4255 2008-07-18 16:30|| 2008-07-18 16:30|| Front Page Top

#13 TOPIX > US: IRAN MISSLE TESTS, DEVELOPMENT SHOW MISSLE SHIELD IS NEEDED IN EUROPE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-07-18 19:23|| 2008-07-18 19:23|| Front Page Top

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