Tempest62 » 26 Dec 2023, 10:29 pm » wrote: ↑
…Enriched to 60%.
Full weapons grade requires 90%. So they’re close. Do they have a means of delivery? At Israel and United States and Europe.
Question: Should Israel conduct pre-emptive strikes at known Iranian sites?
Whatever.
Israel (
and of course the US has this capability too) has previously used its Arrow missile-defence system to shoot down a ballistic missile outside of Earth’s atmosphere, in what is believed to be the first combat ever to take place in space. The ballistic missile was launched from Yemen by the Iran-backed Houthis, and flew almost 1,000 miles over the Arabian peninsula on the way to its target, the Israeli port city of Eilat. The system had previously been used in 2017 to shoot down a Syrian S-200 surface-to-air missile which missed an Israeli warplane and was heading towards an Israeli town.The successful interception is about much more than protecting the residents of Israel from a nuclear attack from Iran. Primarily, it proves to Iran, which was behind the launch and supplied the missile, that Israel has the ability to act against its missile program, and can be deployed in any nuclear attack.
Of course, the U.S. has the same capability of Israel plus the capability to use war satellites to destroy nuclear missiles as they are being launched from Iran. It is unknown whether the U.S. war satellite is capable of destroying nukes launched from nuclear submarines.