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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
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

… When asked for more details about those strikes, the officials acknowledged that only about half of them were intercepted successfully.

The rest failed in flight and didn't reach their targets, the officials said.
Very good to know.
"So much for the vaunted ballistic-missile capability of Iran," said a U.S. official.
Posted by Fred 2024-04-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [429 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

#2 
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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