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- aki009, on 07/10/2008, -2/+18Now it makes sense. The "advanced missile" that they have is based on the WW2 German V-2, and is pretty much as crude as it can get. The likelihood of a country like Iran shooting several of them successfully simultaneously is pretty low. Plus the missile has a tendency to blow up during boost if handled incorrectly, or break up during re-entry. Hence its military value is low, except when tipped with NBC (read: weapons of mass destruction) warheads. The motivation for Photoshopping is to make this joke of a missile system appear more impressive than it is.
- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 07/10/2008, -1/+15LULZ @ IRAN
- spankaccount, on 07/10/2008, -3/+17Isn't it funny how nobody else in the media caught this fake? I take that back... no, it's not funny.
- markw76, on 07/10/2008, -2/+15Funny how this post with a LGF link was buried while an unattributed one went over 2000...
- theright, on 07/10/2008, -1/+11LMAO @ IRAN
- aki009, on 07/10/2008, -1/+11The photoshopping was done to hide a missile that failed to launch. Wouldn't be good for their image for the world to see how unreliable their equipment is. Of course it backfired thanks to the crudeness of the job, and now _everybody_ knows about it.
- aki009, on 07/10/2008, -1/+10The rightmost missile in the un-photoshopped image shows plumes of smoke eminating from about the middle of the rocket. That's not visible on the other two, hence it must be a malfunction and I'd bet that the missile would not hit whatever it was aimed at. That makes for a 50% failure rate on launch alone. Not impressive at all. But then again, what would one expect for a missile that's based on the WW2 German V-2.
- dandan111, on 07/11/2008, -1/+8LGF is the best.
- Aaronontheweb, on 07/10/2008, -2/+8I guess three missles wasn't scary enough
- Hortnon, on 07/10/2008, -3/+8To be fair, the entire photo isn't fake, just one of the missiles.
- Sacking101, on 07/10/2008, -0/+5It's actually very frighting. Very frighting indeed.
Just think of all the other things which may have slipped past them. - inactive, on 07/10/2008, -2/+7Something tells me that Iran's military might is on par with Haiti's.
- prikolno, on 07/10/2008, -1/+5Lets hope so.
- aki009, on 07/10/2008, -1/+5Take that back. Another picture from another angle doesn't show anything but desert floor where the fake missile is.
- aki009, on 07/10/2008, -1/+5To be more precise, it looks like the launch plume of the third missile from the left (the fake one) is covering up something, with more than just the plume photoshopped. Perhaps they had a launch failure (read: explosion) of the intended missile, and wanted to preserve the image of the "ready-to-go" (or ready-to-fail as it may be) missile system.
- tkstock, on 07/10/2008, -1/+5They probably only have 5 centrifuges - they photoshopped the other 2,995 to make it look like they had 3,000.
- inactive, on 07/11/2008, -3/+6Liberal wackos from Huffington Post and Thinkprogress hard at work.
- jjvors, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2For a good laugh, go over to Free Republic's thread about this. There are some hilarious photoshopped images there.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043210/p ... - japanskeptic, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1"Iran is enriching uranium to develop warheads to stick on their fake missiles" -- how could the MSM do its job of scaring people if they ran headlines like that
- RoxorsPH, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1They are now saying that it is only one missile from different angles. It is also not the long range missile Iran said it was. There's no reason to be fair to Iran's propaganda machine.
Almost nothing better than catching posers in the act. - aki009, on 07/11/2008, -1/+2Sure. The V-2 was a big step. But big steps of the past aren't always as useful today. For example, the Santa Maria was a big step for the Spanish getting to America, but even with GPS it would've been a crapshoot if it could get across the Atlantic more than once.
These missiles are too inaccurate to be tactical weapons, and basing strategic NBC weapons on an unreliable carrier increases the risk of having it arrive where it's not intended, which diminishes the usability of the weapons to almost nil. The V-2 was flying over water or enemy territory after launch, hence even worst-case performance was no problem. But would Ahma want to launch a dirty bomb or Anthrax surprise to Tel Aviv if it might land in Damascus by mistake? - asdffdas1234, on 07/11/2008, -2/+2You shouldn't mock V-2. They were mans greatest step torwards modern spaceflight and intercontinental ballistic missiles. It's not the design concept that has changed much over the years merely much better implementation. Even an old V-2 could be quite scary if it had modern guidance system.
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