Journalists allowed into secret underground missile command in Iran

[lynx]

Missile silos are not much of a secret to an adversary possessing advanced satellite reconnaissance. Both US and USSR exactly knew where their enemy's missile silos are located and the first strike so designed to take out each other's nuclear missile sites.

 

[Way to go]

Iran

 

[BelligerentPacifist]

it is a early version of the Shahab my friend. it is the SHAHAB3 A not C version

Merci. But wouldn't that make these 'new' silos actually old?

Anyways, tashakkur baroye akshaa. Missile **** is awesome

 

[Aspahbod]

@IranLand,
Is that a Shahabe seh? Why has it got an old-style nosecone? That tells me it carries a heavier payload and is therefore based closer to the target than a latter ti-conic shahab would be. If we look carefully, it is a short-body shahab, with smaller range as it is, and has smaller fins. Che khayal darii?

These launch sites are built 15 years ago and probably fitted with missiles just years later when there was no Shahab-3B with triconic warhead.