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Originally Posted by dkveuro
The point is...Iran is the central figure in this senario.
With porous borders , there's enough range in the latest missiles ( 180 nm ) to reach any surface vessel in the Red Sea or the Golf of Hormuz from a land based mobile launcher(s).
The AWAC's only look at moving threats, by the time a missile is launched and on track at Mach 2 plus... there's maybe 30 seconds to impact.
I'd say this is a serious threat that has left a big hole in surface shipping defence.
China and far east threats do not pose the same 'inland waters' confined attack strategums.
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Yeah, it's a threat. There are lots of threats for which we have no direct countermeasure. But then we do have countermeasures of different sorts. This was the whole concept of MAD vs the USSR. We couldn't stop MIRV'd nukes but we could make retribution so horrific that the USSR was intimidated by the response.
Ths same applies to Iran. If they screw-around too much we have a wide array of responses that can introduce them to a world of pain. The trick is to convince them that a first strike for them is not worth the response we will deliver.
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