Re: Iran unveils new underground missile silo: state tv

[Guest guest]

There is a reason why the US and Russia made a shift to mobile launchers, including submarines, and away from silos. Silos are fixed targets that can be blown up easily, just like happened to Sadaam's fixed launchers in the first Gulf War. The mobile SCUD launchers were very hard to find and in fact only a few were destroyed.

In a message dated 6/27/2011 5:43:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

Iran unveils new underground missile silo: state tv

[Guest guest]

Yep, but in the dessert, mobile launchers are sitting ducks no matter how they

are camoflauged. But if you put in a silo with a lid that looks like sand, and

manage to keep it secret somehow, then you can at least be sure of using them

once. And if you launch in the dark, satellite may not be able to pinpoint them,

and radar may not even be accurate even if you can calculate a reverse

tragectory on the arc of the missle.

Administrator

There is a reason why the US and Russia made a shift to mobile launchers,

including submarines, and away from silos. Silos are fixed targets that can be

blown up easily, just like happened to Sadaam's fixed launchers in the first

Gulf War. The mobile SCUD launchers were very hard to find and in fact only a

few were destroyed.

[Guest guest]

Yep, but in the dessert, mobile launchers are sitting ducks no matter how they

are camoflauged. But if you put in a silo with a lid that looks like sand, and

manage to keep it secret somehow, then you can at least be sure of using them

once. And if you launch in the dark, satellite may not be able to pinpoint them,

and radar may not even be accurate even if you can calculate a reverse

tragectory on the arc of the missle.

Administrator

There is a reason why the US and Russia made a shift to mobile launchers,

including submarines, and away from silos. Silos are fixed targets that can be

blown up easily, just like happened to Sadaam's fixed launchers in the first

Gulf War. The mobile SCUD launchers were very hard to find and in fact only a

few were destroyed.