Iran launches three satellites on single rocket
According to its state-run press, Iran today successfully launched three satellites in orbit, its two-stage Simorgh rocket lifting off from an undisclosed location within Iran.
This was Iran’s second orbital launch in the last week, and the third in less than four months.
The 2024 launch race:
7 SpaceX
6 China
2 Iran
1 India
1 ULA
1 Japan
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According to its state-run press, Iran today successfully launched three satellites in orbit, its two-stage Simorgh rocket lifting off from an undisclosed location within Iran.
This was Iran’s second orbital launch in the last week, and the third in less than four months.
The 2024 launch race:
7 SpaceX
6 China
2 Iran
1 India
1 ULA
1 Japan
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In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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They are getting better and better, as this successful start proves. Iran has developed technologies in the area of missiles and guided missiles (especially drones), which should not be underestimated by the USA and Israel. This is not the only reason why Iran is a very interesting partner for other BRICS states such as China and Russia.
The Russian/Iranian Bot spews again
Any civilian drone with a guidance system can be reprogrammed. upgraded and up scaled to become a dangerous weapon of destruction.
Camera guidance is easy with a chase plane staying just close enough to bounce the signal and to keep the signal time down to something reasonable.
They could even go so far as to weaponize a civilian passenger plane and thus the military would take even longer to shoot it down. The IFF/friend or foe system could be moved to another plane. Any plane that could carry 5000 lb could carry a nuclear bomb. Even its radio communications could be bounced to a chase plane or now even AI’d to fool ground controllers.
I hope our military think tanks would have already thought of this.
Sorry if my post seems odd.
My mind has been on the drone strike in the Mid East.
It reminded me of the First Gulf War when my brother was in a Patriot battery in the area the missile strike killed all those solders.
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/26/world/war-in-the-gulf-scud-attack-scud-missile-hits-a-us-barracks-killing-27.html
My brother was there at the time and I thought he might have been one of them. He did not call for two days.
He got to see the radar image of the attack and told me they the scud was intercepted but the warhead had already fallen off and was not targeted. The missile body was hit and killed. (This was confirmed weeks later.)
The simple fact that it hit a barracks was just bad luck.
This attack might also be down to luck, good and bad.
You Americans should really check what is happening with your extorted tax money. Approximately a trillion dollars in military spending per year (in comparison, space spending is actually a completely negligible trifle) is a long way from translating this incredible sum into the corresponding military capabilities. On the contrary: the US empire appears comparatively incompetent, and too weak to win. This is now clearly visible in Ukraine and the Middle East (Yemen). The only thing you can do is bomb (but hasn’t it always been that way?).
American investigates where all these enormous sums of money are sinking into the military-industrial complex (“pork” to the power of three). It is your tax dollars, your work and your life that are being wasted.
Questioner
The US is not fighting in the Ukraine. Financing it is totally different. Unlike the Russians who moved troops into Syria and many other nations instead of just financing the side they wanted to win.
As for how much money the US spends on its military. I want us to spend more. I want the US military to be the worlds policemen. i do not trust anyone else to do it.