Missiles can reach UK say Iran

[Spinningnewbie]

Just heard this in live interview with Defence Secretary.
Apparently they can reach us in 4 hours.
Are they lying??

My mistake, it's Israel that have announced this today. Wow.

Scaremongering tactics

I doubt they can, although it is possible.

Israel is incentivised to keep anti Iran sentiment high in Europe and the West.

But, if they could, they don’t have many and they would be easy to shoot down with the long flight time.

In addition, they would have to put a tiny warhead on to get the distance.

And, why would they ? If they wanted to just spread fear and hurt stock markets, there are far closer European cities than London.

But why though? We don't love Donald trump. His actions aren't our fault?

Who knows if it's true but Fuck Trump is all I can say. Said it earlier too when I got petrol. Just fuck him.

Israel have been saying similar for days. They seem to think it's an argument for Europe to get more involved in their illegal war. Whereas from my perspective, it's just another reason for us to keep out of it.

Doubtful. Any they'd be shot down along the way even if they could.

Sorry, confused. Are Israel saying Iran could hit the UK, or are they saying Israel could

russia has been threatening to nuke us since 2022 and we’re still here, so I’m not that worried about Iran

Remember when Saddam had missiles that could reach us and could be launched at any moment, proven by Tony Blairs dossier? Same as that.

If Israel are saying this, that almost certainly means it’s not true.

Anyway, the Iranian regime is horrible but not insane. If they fired rockets at London, we would probably end up bombing them into oblivion (not saying its right or wrong, but it’s what would happen)

Well if Israel says it…

Yup. It's good old fashioned physics. To get that sort of range you are into ICBM territory. And they are very difficult and very expensive to do. And for a non nuke payload, it's pretty much pointless.

Israel saying Iran could.

I’m not sure why Iran would bomb London, Paris, Berlin (the cities Israel named as being in reach). At the moment UK and Europe are trying to not really get involved. Bombing Paris would change that pretty quickly!

Israel are saying that Iran could hit the UK.

Israel are desperate to get everyone involved in their war as they can’t win it alone.

In any case, Iran will be far more interested in hurting us if we are in a war with them - so, best we stay out!

Israel are trying to stoke up fear in Europe now that Trump is trying to extricate himself from the war.

This looks like a rerun of the discussion prompted by the missiles fired supposedly at Diego Garcia.

The Iranians might have something with adequate range but probably not something that can be mass produced, and also not something that can deliver a significant payload.

Given the lofted trajectory such missiles would have to fly to reach western europe they would be almost immune from interception except in the boost phase (during and just after launch) or in the terminal dive....

The UK has no declared operational Anti ballistic missle capability, though the system on the Type 45 destroyers might be of limited use

Be wary of politicians appearing on Sunday Morning politics programmes and eleswhere claiming or hinting otherwise.

There’s a surprise. So far only Israel has said that Iran has weapons that could reach London, Paris and Berlin. So that’s the capital cities of three major European countries who have all refused to join this war. Some might consider that a threat from Isreal who actually do have access to weapons that could reach the UK, France and Germany. The missiles that were fired at the Chagos Islands last week? Remember that? Think about it, have we actually seen any evidence that they were fired from Iran? Or was it just Isreal who said that? Is it possible that someone else have fired them to try and draw the UK, France and Germany in? False flags written all over it!

It’s warmongering, shit stirring, genocidal Israel that’s the problem here. They have been causing disputes, death and destruction since they were created and they aren’t going to stop unless the rest of the world finally wakes up
to their gaslighting.

@WhatSharonSaidNext

Or was it just Isreal who said that?

Sources for info on the DG attempted strike were US based.

That makes sense given the location and the tech needed to detect the things in flight.

As I understand it the main query about that event is how close did the missiles get to DG because that would be an indication of whether western europe really is in range

I am not sure they have the tech. Iran to UK is ICMB territory, and ICBM tech is near the same as Satellite launch. And Iran uses Russia to launch their sats.

And I agree re the missiles aimed at Diego Garcia. The news says one failed at launch. The other was shot down. To me that would mean shot down on the ascent, probably from the Arabian sea. ICBMs do about Mach 15 on re-entry and pretty much can't be intercepted.

And being aimed at is not the same as can hit. Also value of target. A small warhead in the middle of parked up B52s is worth it. That same warhead on Oxford street is pointless.

No. missiles launched in Iran can't reach the UK.

And the evidence of that is the fact that they've never done it.

Because if they coulda, they woulda. - Do you really think they'd sit back and be bombed and not retaliate if they could?

They do hold that capability, that bit isn't a lie or propaganda.

The amount of stock of missiles with that capability is a knowledge gap though.

Iran do have some pretty impressive inventory and capability. I have had moments of amazements with some of the stuff they try... some outside the box thinking. There's no denying they are a threat.
However, they were never an imminent threat before this started.

I would question the easy to shoot down. Not for us anyway. Our military doesn't have a suitable GBAD system to do so and a missile of that caliber, wouldn't be a viable target for our air to air missiles.
We'd need to rely on NATO/US and the use of their Patriot battery's spread across Europe.

I assume there’s some truth to the statement but it’s not a direct threat by Iran instead we have a proxy threat to drag us into conflict.