Missiles can reach UK say Iran

By "flattening Tehran", do you mean using a nuclear weapon? Short of that, I'm not clear on how the UK military would accomplish that mission.

The USN, USAF, and IAF have been bombing Tehran for three weeks without flattening it. The RAF phased out heavy or strategic bombers in the 1980s to save money and has nothing comparable to the B1, B2 or B52 aircraft.

Edited to add that if Iran or anyone else wanted to cause maximum damage to the UK's military infrastructure and capabilities with conventional missiles, they'd target GCHQ, MoD headquarters, and air bases. Lots of civilian targets like natural gas terminals, communications nodes, and power plants are also highly vulnerable to conventional missile attacks.

This is Israeli propaganda designed to sway public opinion to support their “war”.

If the UK participated we would become a target. By hosting US murderplanes we already are participating and I would urge the government to shut that down immediately.

Was thinking more land based cruise missile. Easier for these countries to develop nerve agents. Think of Salisbury. A small bottle could shut down a large city and is deniable.

This is Israeli propaganda designed to sway public opinion to support their “war”.

It's just as well there's no ICBMs to shoot down then.

However, even if I'm wrong and there are, as others have pointed out, they're unlikely to be able to carry a significant payload. They're not likely to be any use to harm any strategic military sites in the UK, so at most they could be used as a weapon of terror.

I don't want to shit anyone up, but if the Iranian regime wants to harm or frighten UK civilians, common-or-garden acts of terrorism (i'm sure I don't need to descrive the means) would be many times more impactful and cost-effective. it would also have plausible deniability. Were it to target eg. London with a limited arsenal of long-range missiles, the UK (and US and Israeli) military would make short work of flattening Tehran. Iran knows this.

Probably for clarity it's worth pointing out the amount of territory overflown isn't really relevant for a ballistic missile of significant range.

That's because for most of the arc of flight it's well above the reach of any ground based missile systems....something on a 4000 km trip will be multiple hundred if not > 1000 km up at mid point of flight...(haven't checked the exact numbers so open to correction).

That's why most SAM systems that can engage these things tend to intercept them in the final stages of flight when they are heading back down..which means the SAM systems have to be based relatively near potential targets....Or in other words it would be tough to impossible for, say, a NATO Patriot system in Poland to intercept an Iranian ballistic missile heading for, say, Paris or London...

Correct, and rather than being concentrated on missile defense, the savings from decades of defense spending cuts have gone to non-defense spending.

Also ICBM don't take 4 hours to reach their target. An Iranian missile would have to fly over lots of airspace.

Nope....in the western world there are a tiny handful of surface to air missile systems that have a demonstrated capability to engage ballistic missiles in flight, namely the SM-3/THAAD, and some variants of the Patriot system,

The UK has none of those.

No, it killed tens of thousands of children.

there were probably some terrorists in there too. The thing is, bombing a hospital (for example) is a fairly blunt in instrument. And collateral damage is inevitable in war, isn’t it?

No, it killed tens of thousands of children.

there were probably some terrorists in there too. The thing is, bombing a hospital (for example) is a fairly blunt in instrument. And collateral damage is inevitable in war, isn’t it?

And what of the Palestinians in the West Bank?

What do you mean by hired missiles?
What news outlet is this news of long range missiles from ?

What we have is outlined below. We do have a gap in anti ballistic defence atm

I thought because they had hired missiles that reached a certain destination that it could also reach us. I just hope the Persian people get the freedom they want from a tyrannical regime.

I hope so but from what I’ve been reading our defences are not good.

All of our defence is now concentrated on this rather than a ground army, so we probably do.

Fgs. They don’t exist. There’s zero evidence except for a statement from the Israeli government, and the very weird and suspect Diego Garcia turn of events.

its dodgy dossiers, David Kelly etc all over again. It’s so obvious and to be fair most people are seeing through it

Ah well, it was nice knowing you all

At least Putin is benefiting from it.

I don’t think we’ve got enough weapons to shoot them down with the state of our armed forces.

No, of course not.

It's like when Netanyahu says 'from the river to the sea'. It doesn't count.

Not just Trump. Think about who has been pulling his strings.

Netanyahu said he'd wipe Palestine off the map in September 2023 at the UNGA
By your standards does that mean they had a right to defend themselves and attack ?

Yet evidence has been given by a credible institution
despite the fact a war criminal with an arrest warrant out on him doesn’t like it
Well diddums

The use of laughing imojis on a thread such as this is more an indication that a poster has Nothing concrete or factual on the subject and merely seeks to put down other posts
It doesn’t work