tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19245896.post903601326908450260..comments2024-03-28T21:57:32.099+11:00Comments on Submarine Matters & Australian Nuclear Weapons: Iran fires Zulfiqar ballistic missiles at targets in Syria - Region NervousPete2http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134037393078707072noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19245896.post-74610088285853744812017-06-30T17:51:39.736+10:002017-06-30T17:51:39.736+10:00Hi Pete
While Iran firing Zulfiqar missiles may be...Hi Pete<br />While Iran firing Zulfiqar missiles may be a cause of concern, Israel surely has the means to counter the missiles. This is the only country which can be expected to spring surprises when no one expects it. IT is a question of the survival of the Jewish State and the Israelis will go to any extent to secure themselves. <br />Regards<br />KumarKumarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02571503236070897848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19245896.post-91783338987800204812017-06-23T21:34:01.866+10:002017-06-23T21:34:01.866+10:00Long term what is the solution for all these faile...Long term what is the solution for all these failed states that are breeding grounds for really bad guys?<br /><br />Talk about the Philippines armed forces failing to recapture the provincial town they lost for several weeks now. And there are tens of millions of poor people living in slumps in that country as well.<br />KQNAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19245896.post-21823813298534661332017-06-22T14:30:41.899+10:002017-06-22T14:30:41.899+10:00The firepower all around seems to be moving up qui...The firepower all around seems to be moving up quite a notch in Syria as the story about 'magical mortars' appearing with Kurdish rebels forces. It seems to be a recoil based automated 81mm mortars that can be fired from the bed of a 4wd.<br />https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htart/articles/20170618.aspx<br /><br />As for the Iranian ballistic missiles, I wonder if the US spate of shooting down of Iranian drones in Syria is related to them being used as targeting systems?Ztev Konradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06553128132098513643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19245896.post-54321791558604948572017-06-21T23:34:56.980+10:002017-06-21T23:34:56.980+10:00The US has always tolerated a conventional KSA bal...The US has always tolerated a conventional KSA ballistic missile capability. The current capability apparently involves DF-21. As far as is known, these are strictly conventional BMs with no NBC warheads.<br /><br />As to people largely being silent on the Iranian attack, the general rule seems to be that any thing you do to ISIS is ok, and I don't think anyone wanted to begrudge Iran a revenge attack for the Tehran incident. Attacking the shrine and parliament would have been the equivalent of attacking Congress and the Washington monument in the US; it was reasonable for the Iranians to strike back, even if it was in a relatively ineffective way.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />JoshJoshnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19245896.post-72319052203400754912017-06-21T23:19:28.530+10:002017-06-21T23:19:28.530+10:00Hi Anonymous
Thanks for reporting that.
And in t...Hi Anonymous<br /><br />Thanks for reporting that.<br /><br />And in the proxy war in Yemen the body-count is even worse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_proxy_conflict<br /><br />Also there happens to be a "Royal Saudi Strategic Missile Force" <br />which is the fifth branch of the Royal Saudi Armed Forces, responsible for commissioning long-range strategic missiles. <br />Both Pakistan and China are involved supplying missiles, providing instruction and probably storing warheads. <br /><br />See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Saudi_Strategic_Missile_Force and <br /><br />Submarine Matters first article ever "Saudi Ballistic Missiles..." - in 2007 - http://gentleseas.blogspot.com.au/2007/<br /><br />Mysterious why there has not been any Western outcry about this potential or actual Saudi WMD force?<br /><br />Regards<br /><br />PetePetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02624742078679760819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19245896.post-38182294063672161982017-06-21T20:24:15.051+10:002017-06-21T20:24:15.051+10:00Hi Pete
Saudi Arabia's coastguard killed Iran...Hi Pete<br /><br />Saudi Arabia's coastguard killed Iranian fisherman [1]. Iran is furious.<br /><br />http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/saudi-border-guards-kill-iranian-fisherman-170617184851840.html<br />Saudi coastguard officers have opened fire on Iranian fishing boats in the Gulf, killing a fisherman, according to Iranian media, amid high tensions between the two rival states.<br /><br />"Two Iranian boats that were fishing in the waters of the Persian Gulf were pushed off their course by waves. There was shooting by Saudi border guards ... and one Iranian fisherman was killed," the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted an interior ministry official as saying about Friday night's incident.<br /><br />RegardsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com