Happy Noises from Iran

5 Responses to “Happy Noises from Iran”

1. Rudi says:

   August 22, 2007 at 6:33 pm

   Holly – They are just claiming to have developed their own JDAM that we used in Bosnia and Iraq. The JDAM is a cheap guided bomb that is supposed to limit collateral damage. Untill the Iranian regular army invades another country, this troublesome Iranian regime is allowed a defense industry. If you find evidence of CW, BW or “nerve gas”, then you can make a claim about “war like” intentions’ . China makes weapons for export to whoever is willing to pay the price. The US is selling tamks annd planes to Sunnis governments in the region, we don’t have room to talk.

   The Bargain Basement Bomb

   U.S. generals: JDAM is cheap and accurate

   By Patrick J. Sloyan, Washington Bureau

   Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. — Take a steel part from a lawnmower, add an antique computer chip, get some automobile plastic from Detroit and you have the ingredients of the most accurate cheap bomb ever produced.

   It is called JDAM, the not-so-catchy acronym for Joint Direct Attack Munition, which stunned NATO generals with its accuracy during last spring’s Operation Allied Force in Kosovo. “It’s incredible,” said Air Force Brig. Gen. Leroy Barnidge Jr., who oversaw the use of 650 JDAMs on Serbia.

   Critics of Pentagon weapon programs, which routinely cost twice as much and perform half as well as defense contractors promise, also said they were impressed. A $14,000 JDAM kit has transformed vintage, Vietnam War-era bombs into such lethal and reliable weapons that by next year, the kit will be carried by every Air Force, Navy and Marine fighter-bomber.

   One such skeptic, John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists, sees JDAM as a last-minute addition to the 20th Century’s pantheon to human destruction.

   “It’s right up there with the machine gun and the atomic bomb,” Pike said of the $4 billion program.
   http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/docs/e19991115bargain.htm
   It takes 10 minutes to add JDAM technology to the tail section of the one-ton, Vietnam-era MK48.
2. Rudi says:

   August 22, 2007 at 6:34 pm

   Sorry the link was supposed to be at the start of the blockquote.
3. Nick Rivera says:

   August 22, 2007 at 7:14 pm

   Silly Iran. Doesn’t it know that only the U.S. is allowed to have smart bombs?
4. Ashen Shard says:

   August 22, 2007 at 7:15 pm

   So, you expect Iran to show not having warlike intentions by completely abandoning their military and using government funding for peaceful endeavors? Would you advocate that the US do the same?

   The US is by far more threatening with its military technology and the amount it spends on its military, over half of the budget. All Iran is doing is developing weapons to defend itself and make the US think twice about invading. We’ve been through this dance before with the USSR, and Iran is far from the threat posed by them.
5. Bones_708 says:

   August 22, 2007 at 9:59 pm

   All Iran is doing is developing weapons to defend itself and make the US think twice about invading.

   Don’t forget about driving the Jews into the sea. From the speeches that’s also high on the to do list!