If you have developed spacelaunch vehicles wirh even limited throw weight (as Iran has) you have by definition a more than 2000 km capable ballistic missile. And no, Iran wasn't bound by treaty or law to a 2000 km limit. Hence my absence of surprise when the Diego Garcia launch happened
Over on the bad site, Rich Goldberg is hinting at striking civilian nuclear power plants. It's not just criminal, its also stupid.
He now denies it; you can choose whether to believe him.
you have to understand that shitty Ezra Klein take in this context too; he was attempting to climb onboard what he believed to be a cultural bandwagon.
This is terrifyingly reminiscent of a moment in @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social’s speculative fiction work “The 2020 Commission” envisaging a nuclear attack on the #USA
A novel that everyone should read.
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We also have a write-up online. Absent debris from an Iranian drone, it looks very much like a Patriot misfire. If it was deliberate, the intercept attempt looks rather irresponsible and out of character with what we know about how CENTCOM operates.
www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1221...
At 4,000+ km, I would happily sit in a lawn chair on the tarmac at Diego Garcia with a bottle of wine while Iran fired two conventionally-armed IRBMs at me. My only hesitation would be the quality of the wine.
Stills from a PrSM arena test that show the effect of tungsten rain.
The team(slair.bsky.social, @duitsmanms.bsky.social others) spent the last few weeks examining this video showing a U.S. Patriot launch in Bahrain. We're confident this interceptor was involved in the explosion over Sitra that damaged 60 residences and injured more than 30 people.
