"OK, fake photo - showing four long- and medium-range missiles rise into the air..." AFP
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OK. Someone altered the photograph. That is interesting but not the primary curiosity about these "long and medium range missiles." To justify this description it would seem that they would have to be ballistic missiles of the Shehab series, probably Shehab 3b.
Is it not the case that ballistic missiles rise nearly vertically from the Transporter Erector Launcher (TEL) in the launch phase of flight?
This is a picture of the Shehab 3 on its TEL. Does this look like the TEL in the doctored photograph above?
These are photographs of the Shehab 3 in the launch phase.
I am not an expert in the field of missile technology, but the missiles in the faked photograph appear to be anti-aircraft ground to air missiles or artillery rockets. The slanted attitude of launch speaks to that. No? Anti-aircraft missiles would be a threat to aircraft, not to Israeli cities. Artillery rockets are a battlefield weapon.
If those missiles are not ballistic missiles, then several interesting questions arise:
1- Which governments are fooling around here?
2- If these are not ballistic missiles, why are the MSM propagating the implication that this photograph displays missiles that are a threat to Israel? pl
