Iran's Ballistic Missile Magazine

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I just love Iranian propaganda, which is exactly what this video is. Iran has managed to hold onto a cadre of engineers and rocket scientists and if they were left to do their job, they could no doubt produce some formidable weapons. But Iran is an authoritarian regime, and as we all should know, that kind of environment promotes stupidity. So while they can produce an impressive stage setting for their fearsome weapons, it is extremely unlikely they would be able to launch more that one without some sort of catastrophe, and even more unlikely they would be able to hit their target.

And I'm not sure just what having a trainload of ballistic missiles buys them. Yes, they are all standing straight up in the launch position, but anything nearby, shoot anything in the same tunnel complex, would be roasted if they launched one. Rockets don't like being roasted, so all the other rockets in that train would explode. As presented it just doesn't make any sense. You would either need a separate cavern sealed off with blast proof doors and provided with Allah's own ventilation tunnels, or you would need to lift the rocket to the surface, which kind of defeats this whole 'magazine train' idea. But maybe I shouldn't mention it. You don't want to interrupt your opponent when he is in middle of making a big mistake.

Iran is like the hothead who is constant hollering about how he is going to kick your ass, but if you ever confront him he runs off and hides. All their bluster is just to impress the peasants in their own country. No one else should pay them any mind.

But you know, if an idiot is waving a gun around and threatening to shoot you, I am pretty sure you are justified in punching him in the nose, so I wouldn't blame Israel if they dropped a bomb right down a silo into the bunker.

Previous posts about Iranian missiles here and here.

Via Tyler Durdan at ZeroHedge and The Drive