Posted on 04/25/2010 9:06:26 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
A cruise missile in a shipping box on sale to rogue bidders
Defence experts are warning of a new danger of ballistic weapons proliferation after a Russian company started marketing a cruise missile that can be launched from a shipping container.
By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent
Published: 6:30PM BST 25 Apr 2010
It is feared that the covert Club-K missile attack system could prove "game-changing" in fighting wars with small countries, which would gain a remote capacity to mount multiple missiles on boats, trucks or railways.
Iran and Venezuela have already shown an interest in the Club-K Container Missile System which could allow them to carry out pre-emptive strikes from behind an enemy's missile defences.
Defence experts say the system is designed to be concealed as a standard 40ft shipping container that cannot be identified until it is activated.
Priced at an estimated £10 million, each container is fitted with four cruise anti-ship or land attack missiles. The system represents an affordable "strategic level weapon".
Some experts believe that if Iraq had the Club-K system in 2003 it would have made it impossible for America to invade with any container ship in the Gulf a potential threat.
Club-K is being marketed at the Defence Services Asia exhibition in Malaysia this week.
Novator, the manufacturer, is an advanced missile specialist that would not have marketed the system without Moscow's approval. It has released an emotive marketing film complete with dramatic background music.
It shows Club-K containers stowed on ships, trucks and trains as a neighbouring country prepares to invade with American style military equipment.
The enemy force is wiped out by the cruise missile counter attack.
Russia has already prompted concern in Washington by selling Iran the sophisticated S-300
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
AQ will take posession of them in the next 5 minutes. This is exactly what OBL needs to deliver the warhead over the US border.
“Yep, the solution is to help terrorists.”
Umph ... we did this “my enemies enemy is my friend” game much too often and ended up with things turning even worse on the long run.
Remember what happened after we gave stingers anti-aircraft missiles to the taliban to fight the russians ? In the long run we’ve got 911.
We’ve kicked Irans first and only democratic gouvernment in the 50s because they won’t give their oil for free and installed a dictator, the sha of persia. They kicked him in a revolution in 79 and things went even worse for both the US and Iran.
I could continue this with many other countries. Chile, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, etc. US foreign politics in overturning a other nations gouvernment always (except Germany and Japan) messed things up in the long run.
For me the solution would be easy. Get our troops home and flatten the whole middle east with B-52s.
Let me put it this way ...when a nuke goes off in the US (note: I did not say 'if') you can be sure of three things:
i) It will NOT be Russian (with apologies to those that still wait for Commie bastichs parachuting down one early dawn)
ii) It will have strong connections with Pakistan (that 'ally' of the US that also happens to be the world's leading - propagator of Islamic radicalism and terrorism through the ISI - number one Madrassas spot - proliferator of nuclear technology through the A.Q.Khan network - strong anti-American). If Bush had b@lls he would have named it as one of the axis-of-evil countries (it deserves it more than N.Korea and Iran do), but politics always prevails. The idiot Obama will obviously not do it.
iii) The mules will be Islamic radicals ...but will not be the swarthy Arab looking folk many FReepers think the enemy 'looks like.' Chechens are very much a part of Al Queda and global Jihad, and many have fair skin, light hair, and blue eyes. There is a reason profiling in Israel is an art done by very well trained individuals ...but some here think that the solution is to pull out every olive skinned Arab, while the other side on the Left thinks it is pulling out granny or/and having lactating mothers drink their breast milk.
Anyways, that day approaches. I pray that the good Lord foils the plans of the wicked.
Always the voice of sanity and reason pouring cold water on a good panic, eh.
I am a carbon rod preventing FR from becoming like DU. At times it can be surprising how close FReepers and DUmmies can be at times ...like two idiots living across a railroad from each other. Fortunately our side tends to have more collective brain cells than the folks over at DUmmieland, but there are some threads that if you ‘blind tested’ them you could not tell whether you were on FR or DU.
this could have as much impact in places like Afghanistan as the aquisition of the the shoulder fired Stinger anti aircraft missle had in Vietnam
Maybe a certain well in Qom could be capped.
Yup. We went down that path before helping Bin Laden kill Russian kids. We have a bigger threat running our lives now.
Mainly thanks to stupid serfs watching TV and ball games where Corn Cob U is playing St. John’s of Satan (aka Notre Dame abortion school).
From this link here http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/warfare.html, article 7 states that you cannot have civilian ships armed a warship.
Article 1. A merchant ship converted into a war-ship cannot have the rights and duties accruing to such vessels unless it is placed under the direct authority, immediate control, and responsibility of the Power whose flag it flies.
Art. 2. Merchant ships converted into war-ships must bear the external marks which distinguish the war-ships of their nationality.
Art. 3. The commander must be in the service of the State and duly commissioned by the competent authorities. His name must figure on the list of the officers of the fighting fleet.
Art. 4. The crew must be subject to military discipline.
Art. 5. Every merchant ship converted into a war-ship must observe in its operations the laws and customs of war.
Art. 6. A belligerent who converts a merchant ship into a war-ship must, as soon as possible, announce such conversion in the list of war-ships.
Art. 7. The provisions of the present Convention do not apply except between Contracting Powers, and then only if all the belligerents are Parties to the Convention.
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The spirit of the Geneva Convention is that you cannot mix or disguise military & civilian vessels/equipment and use the civilian vessel as a vehicle of war.
However who has ever heard of these commies and their terrorist allies ever holding to the 'rules of war'? Isnt China right now arming & supplying the Taliban & Al Quada while claiming its rogue arms dealers that are doing the dirty work?
Maybe that’s the point of the CGI video -to provoke a response by the US.
Perhaps it is.
Sounds like conventional warfare won’t do much to prevent this kind of attack. We would need MUCH more robust intelligence sources - eyes and ears in the right places.
Perhaps we should be pouring money into training translators and building radiation detectors.
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