Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

Re:Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia by chatmasta on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:38PM (#47469258)

A missile would need to fly all the way over Europe before reaching London. It would be noticed, jets would be scrambled and it would be shot. Just like what happened here.

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Re:Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia by delichon on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:55PM (#47469445)

These were ballistic missiles. They are only vulnerable during the terminal phase, when they are moving at hypersonic speeds. Standard fighter jets aren't going to do it. It would take ground based THAAD, Patriot, or ship based Aegis systems. London might want to budget for that.

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Re:Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia by polotics on Saturday March 21, 2026 @02:54PM (#47470060)

or take (less) of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMP/T 8^)

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Re:Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia by hirako2000 on Saturday March 21, 2026 @03:31PM (#47470438)

They can fly well above any commercial and military aircraft.

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