Pentagon to launch blimps to guard against cruise missiles

CBSlocal ^ | 1-24-14 | not attibuted

[okie01]

Storing it is one thing, successfully launching it is another

Iran seems fully capable of launching missiles -- from the ground, air and sea.

Their issue seems to be guidance technology -- whether they'll go where they're supposed to go.

Granted, a ship complicates the issue -- accurately establishing launch location, relationship to the target, adjusting to any pitch or roll, etc.

However, if said cruise missile is nuclear-armed, close will do. The point is made whether the missile strikes the capitol dome...or Baltimore Harbor.

The risk is defined by three questions:

1. Could the Iranians develop a nuclear warhead?

2. Could they, or their proxies, launch such a device toward the American mainland from a cargo ship?

3. Given the ability, would they conceivably do so?

In each case, isn't the answer "yes"?

[sickoflibs]

RE:”Storing it is one thing, successfully launching it is another
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Iran seems fully capable of launching missiles — from the ground, air and sea.
Their issue seems to be guidance technology — whether they'll go where they're supposed to go. “

Guidance technology that can handle high accelerations, Its much more complicated than just lobbing a ballistic missile in the air and it lands where-ever it lands.

You see today's news story about that shooting in the Columbia Maryland Mall? FNC spend a lot of time on it, with little info to report.
That's in my general area. I go to that mall every-so often. I had my watch battery replaced there recently.