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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/7632543/A-cruise-missile-in-a-shipping-box-on-sale-to-rogue-bidders.html



The missile itself is already in service in some countries.

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Club - K container missile system. Stills from an animated film being used to market a missile system that allows cruise missles to be launched from a freight container. this can be loaded onto a lorry, ship, or train as desired tomove into position before launching missiles 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.

Priced at an estimated £10 million, each container is fitted with four cruise anti-ship or land attack missiles. The system represents an affordable "strategic level weapon".

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.

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Re: Russians selling cruise missile kits to all comers (unbelievable)
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2010, 12:10:55 PM »
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Re: Russians selling cruise missile kits to all comers (unbelievable)
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2010, 02:37:05 PM »
I have always thought that the most certain delivery system for a third-world country to use against us was a 40' container manifested for NYC or the port of LA, no missile necessary.  Using this Russian system would actually require a moderately-efficient weapon design, a plain old steel container would not.
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Re: Russians selling cruise missile kits to all comers (unbelievable)
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2010, 02:54:54 PM »
Iouldn't worry to much.The US is working on something called Global Strike Program it will make that look like a kids toy. It will allow us to find and locate them i nhours while they are still setting up and they won't know what hit them before its over.
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