THE REAL NIGHTMARE – AT 6:59 P.M. ET:  This is important.  We have, for some time, been warning at Urgent Agenda that the most pressing threat from Iran lies not in nuclear-tipped ICBMs, but in the possibility of a device being smuggled into a harbor or launched from right offshore.  Now comes this, from The Telegraph:

Defence experts are warning of a new danger of ballistic weapons proliferation after a Russian company started marketing a cruise missile that can be launched from a shipping container.

It is feared that the covert Club-K missile attack system could prove "game-changing" in fighting wars with small countries, which would gain a remote capacity to mount multiple missiles on boats, trucks or railways.

Iran and Venezuela have already shown an interest in the Club-K Container Missile System which could allow them to carry out pre-emptive strikes from behind an enemy's missile defences.

Defence experts say the system is designed to be concealed as a standard 40ft shipping container that cannot be identified until it is activated.

And...

Some experts believe that if Iraq had the Club-K system in 2003 it would have made it impossible for America to invade with any container ship in the Gulf a potential threat.

Club-K is being marketed at the Defence Services Asia exhibition in Malaysia this week.

COMMENT:  Incredible.  It's being marketed in the open at military shows.  Let's see how much interest there is among those in America who are obsessed with gun shows.  I hear silence. 

April 25, 2010