Yeah. This is good news…
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3786886,00.html
Islamic Republic’s Space Agency says Kavoshgar-3 to be launched within next six months for research purposes
A previous model of the Kavoshgar-3 missile was used by Iran to launch a satellite into space in February.
“The Kavoshgar-3 missile will be launched into space by the end of the Persian year (which ends on March 20) for the purpose of research,” Mohammad Ibrahimi of the ISA was quoted as saying in honor of the Islamic Republic’s space week.
There was once a time when for a missile to truly be a threat as an ICBM, it would need several capabilities:
1) A payload weight big enough for a large thermonuclear weapon and its re-entry vehicle
2) Some measure of accuracy
3) A developed and reliable thermonuclear weapon and re-entry vehicle.
It seems likely that the Iranian sat-launcher will have a small payload, will probably not be terribly accuract, and they probably do not have a well-developed re-entry vehicle. So don’t worry too much about Iranian nukes raining down out of space.
Sadly, setting off a small nuke somewhere over the middle of the US at a few hundred miles altitude is well within this rocket’s capabilities.
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But hey, at least they won’t have ICBMs for 20 more years at the soonest right? [/sarcasm]
I’m going to go to my happy place now.
EMP, it ain’t a hiphop group!
Be honest now: don’t we all think, at some point, that maybe the vicious and the uncivilized need to be blasted back to Stone Age so they won’t endanger those of us who actually accomplish things? The only reason they can be a problem is because we gave them to the tools to be a problem. Left to their own devices, they’d still be on camels searching for waterholes or scrambling through the jungle trying to avoid lions and elephants.
No one ever seems to talk about this. Yet it’s the most serious problem we face. The best retaliation would be tp emp the rest of the Northern hemisphere leaving Australia in charge.
How many people do you know have the knowledge to do the most basic things to survive like getting water out of the ground, growing a plant or raising livestock? I heard the world is three meals away from anarchy.
You dont need a computer chip to run an engine, but eventually you’ll run out of gas. I don’t know how to make gasoline, let alone where to find oil and refine it.
Didn’t we used to have a good civil defense system? And if every family was armed I think there’d be an inclination to work together rather than steal your neighbors food or 1965 Mustang.