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Russian company unveils 'bomb in a box' cruise missile system
Ria Novosti ^
| 17/08/2011
Posted on 08/17/2011 11:18:37 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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The bomb in the box
© RIA Novosti. Howard Gethin
To: sukhoi-30mki
Well, that is reassuring...
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posted on
08/17/2011 11:24:16 AM PDT
by
El Sordo
(The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
"...cruise missile system which is deployed and can be fired from a standard 40-foot shipping container, from ships,..."
Iran is probably the 1st customer in line - a few small nukes mounted on the missles to be loaded onto a container ship for high-altitude air burst.
Can you say EMP?
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posted on
08/17/2011 11:24:46 AM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: sukhoi-30mki
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posted on
08/17/2011 11:26:00 AM PDT
by
wxgesr
(I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Need to know more, but this may be the new AK-47 of the modern age.
Doing for missiles what the AK did for machine guns.
Frighting development if they start to license others to produce this or people start making copies.
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posted on
08/17/2011 11:27:34 AM PDT
by
dila813
To: sukhoi-30mki
The Chinese will steal the idea, if they haven't already. Any cargo ship instantly becomes a missile carrier.
The flip side is that any country known or suspected to possess such missile containers will see all its commercial ships becoming naval targets at the start of hostilities.
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posted on
08/17/2011 11:32:40 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Boogieman, boogieman, just about any of the current system could be adapted to do the same thing.
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posted on
08/17/2011 11:33:09 AM PDT
by
org.whodat
(What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
To: dila813
A terorist country’s best friend.
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posted on
08/17/2011 11:38:04 AM PDT
by
GraceG
To: GraceG
I would be even more concerned if they made a cheaper version with only one missile launcher in it
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posted on
08/17/2011 11:39:21 AM PDT
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dila813
To: dila813
Doing for missiles what the AK did for machine guns.
At 20 million a pop not gonna happen. What the AK did for machine guns was made them cheap, easy to use and so rugged that even the tribesman who had never seen a gun before couldn't break it. This thing isn't going to do that for missiles, not with an eight digit price tag.
What it will do is bring back the Q-Ship. Why spend a couple of billion dollars building one SSBN when for the same cost you can buy 100 containers of doom. Just load them on a few dozen generic container ships or drop them off in friendly ports and you have a second strike deterrent hidden in plain sight.
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posted on
08/17/2011 11:43:48 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: GonzoGOP
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posted on
08/17/2011 11:52:13 AM PDT
by
seowulf
("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
To: GonzoGOP
Sounds like a new novel. ... But since it was here first, I guess it wouldn’t be a novel novel...
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posted on
08/17/2011 11:53:43 AM PDT
by
Pecos
(Constitutionalist. Liberty and Honor will not die on my watch.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
That looks like the containers that are towed by my office every day!
To: GonzoGOP
a 6 digit price tag isn’t anything for drug gangs and terrorist organizations pulling in billions of dollars a year.
They can afford thousands of these if there is a willing seller.
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posted on
08/17/2011 12:05:40 PM PDT
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dila813
To: sukhoi-30mki
This has been in the works for a while. It comes with a “fire control” container to target and launch the missiles.
Its a good way to convert a container ship into an arsenal ship!
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posted on
08/17/2011 12:07:00 PM PDT
by
Little Ray
(FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
To: dila813
They can afford thousands of these if there is a willing seller. I'm guessing China could tool up and be in full production in 6 months.
To: GonzoGOP
What it will do is bring back the Q-Ship.Not too much info in the article but it did say it was vertical-launch, using hydraulic rams to stand it up in the container.
I guess that means the lid has to have hinges on it, so the top can swing open ... not too standard for a standard shipping container. Fairly distinctive and recognizable, in fact - even from space. That non-standard container would have to be on the top of the stack on a ship, and exposed from above on a transport truck.
This is all guesswork on my part, I admit, but it shouldn't be too hard to keep track of these things.
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posted on
08/17/2011 12:16:17 PM PDT
by
ZOOKER
( Exploring the fine line between cynicism and outright depression)
Any reason this wouldn't be civvy legal with an NFA Form 4 and $200 tax paid?
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posted on
08/17/2011 12:19:36 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
To: nascarnation
The Chinese have been operating the anti-ship variant of the Klub for a few years now, so they probably know hot to go about copying it.
To: nascarnation
That is exactly what I was thinking, or for that matter North Korea.
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08/17/2011 12:30:48 PM PDT
by
dila813
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