Lets Examine these Missiles:
- This is a start-of-the-art missile
- Range: 3, 000 meters, or about 1.8 miles.
- Penetration: 3 Meters, or over 9 feet of reinforced concrete
- It can be carried without a vehicle, and fired by two people
- We hope it fires like this when they get it.
- Here is more data
When I look at Libya's enemies, who would they need to defend themselves from?
The only people that come to mind are:
- Egypt: No threat
- Chad: Fighting their own war No Threat
- Niger: Trouble near their borders, but nothing these Missiles will improve
- Algeria: AQIM is a threat, but mysteriously not focused on Libya
- Tunisia: No Threat
- Sudan: Best Chums
There are only four possible outcomes of this, all three are bad:
- This re-starts an Arms race in North Africa
- Libya deploys these missiles against Jihadis who capture them and use them elsewhere
- They are transferred either legally or illegally to al Qaeda
- Some international criminal group aquires them for resale...read that anyway you like.
This is a simple system, very easy to use, and in the hands of a small terrorist group of any kind it significantly increases their capacity to penetrate hard targets.
I wonder what is really going on here?
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