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Iraqi security forces were Friday interrogating pro-Iran fighters detained for planning a rocket attack in the first such raid in a country caught in the tug-of-war between Tehran and Washington.....
Just before midnight Thursday, the elite Counter-Terrorism Service stormed a base in southern Baghdad used by Kataeb Hezbollah, also known as Brigade 45 of the Hashed al-Shaabi force, Iraqi officials and security sources said.
originally posted by: circuitsports
A nuetron bomb...without much if any...sound
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: circuitsports
A nuetron bomb...without much if any...sound
What gives you that idea? A neutron bomb is still a nuclear weapon, it still generates an explosion and a blast wave. It's engineered to reduce fallout. It'll still be plenty loud.
originally posted by: circuitsports
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: circuitsports
A nuetron bomb...without much if any...sound
What gives you that idea? A neutron bomb is still a nuclear weapon, it still generates an explosion and a blast wave. It's engineered to reduce fallout. It'll still be plenty loud.
You have to consider it as an observer, the facility is designed to conceal nuclear testing from Iran’s capitol 12 miles away, part of that is the crescent shape of the terrain chosen to reflect and cancel out sound waves which are a 2nd, 3rd or 4th order effect depending on the device. Sound can be considered a deficiency in the reaction, if you aren’t trying to utilize sound waves in the destruction. Neutron bombs are trying to sanitize not destroy which is why there yields were designed to be small, even fired from a cannon or attached to a drone or glide bomb for smaller and more focused strikes. Frankly I would be surprised given the early development of the baseball nuke if you couldn’t build a watch size bomb at this point. Especially then you would have a smaller detonation and not very loud if it was really efficient. They were at 60% before real computers or meta materials and most composites.
If you see the real videos there doesn’t appear to be sound, if this was a natural gas or fuel explosion it should be louder, it should also be immediate unlike the steady increasing release of energy seen.
Satellite photos of the area, some 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) east of downtown Tehran, showed hundreds of meters (yards) of charred scrubland not seen in images of the area taken in the weeks ahead of the incident. The building near the char marks resembled the facility seen in the state TV footage.
The gas storage area sits near what analysts describe as Iran’s Khojir missile facility. The explosion appears to have struck a facility for the Shahid Bakeri Industrial Group, which makes solid-propellant rockets, said Fabian Hinz, a researcher at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California.
The Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies identified Khojir as the “site of numerous tunnels, some suspected of use for arms assembly.” Large industrial buildings at the site visible from satellite photographs also suggest missile assembly being conducted there.
originally posted by: Peeple
Satellite photos of the area, some 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) east of downtown Tehran, showed hundreds of meters (yards) of charred scrubland not seen in images of the area taken in the weeks ahead of the incident. The building near the char marks resembled the facility seen in the state TV footage.
The gas storage area sits near what analysts describe as Iran’s Khojir missile facility. The explosion appears to have struck a facility for the Shahid Bakeri Industrial Group, which makes solid-propellant rockets, said Fabian Hinz, a researcher at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California.
The Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies identified Khojir as the “site of numerous tunnels, some suspected of use for arms assembly.” Large industrial buildings at the site visible from satellite photographs also suggest missile assembly being conducted there.
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They just tested a trigger, with great success.