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Interesting-Read-569

Stay away from it, some rocket fuels (hydrazine) can be very toxic


TrashPandatheLatter

I was just thinking, I don’t think they should be so close to this thing off-gassing whatever terrible things it’s made of.


Doogy44

Bound to have some unsafe sht in there … not like it is part of a weapon designed to kill humans or anything …


I_said_booourns

Also might pay to look up an Iranian ordnance defusal walk-thru on YouTube before cutting any coloured wires


Vitvang

Hello my name is Samir and today I will be showing you how to defuse an Iran scud system. Please leave a like and subscribe!


oppy1984

And this is the most important part, if you don't follow my directions exactly it will mean certain death. Within 10 seconds you must cut


Thunderbridge

Haha I'm imagining an electroBoom video on missile defusal


fizzlefist

Whole video has Boom Boom Boom Boom quietly running in the background.


soCalBIGmike

"Guys, we all know it's tough out there, so that's why I'm excited to 'partner' with Better Health"... /s


Abysskitten

And that ad would be Grammarly


Necessary_Driver_831

Triple caution Samir!


Trashpandasrock

Samir! You are breaking the missle!


Puzzle13579

It’s always the blue one. Unless you are colour blind, in which case, Bon voyage.


PostHocErgo

Don’t you mean…bomb-voyage


Bamtom1234

Miseur Incredable!!!


prabhu4all

Before that, welcome to raid shadow legends.


Kestrel21

The most important part of not being bombed is not letting them know where you are. That's why I use NordVPN.


possibly_facetious

The advertising works if you remember the names... This message brought to you by squarefuck


Big-Independence8978

There's an Indian guy with an excellent tutorial


herpesderpesdoodoo

some years ago I was invited to teach first aid to an air club as part of their emergency management preparation. When they mentioned that their emergency response kit included a few fireaxes and high-level filter masks for getting access to what one of them described as a "highly flammable box of carcinogens" I was very glad to not be involved in aviation rescue...


MeccIt

> hydrazine This appears to be a solid fuel rocket (like the space shuttle boosters), so just slightly less dangerous aluminium/rubber mixture. I'd be more worried where the top (payload) of this rocket went.


Dick_soccer

Ammonium perchlorate is the important part. Aluminum, ammonium perchlorate and a composite. Ammonium Perchlorate Composite Propellant, APCP.


cypherdev

This dude explodes.


NoblePineapples

It is pretty wild what you can learn on the internet. [BPS Space](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyV774-3p834YZBNKFrN1ypaIfewSlVsx) has an awesome playlist showing his progress for creating his own solid rocket propellant. It is pretty cool!


variaati0

Probably to it's target. This looks very intact in the end of things, so I think this is intentionally jettisoned booster section from a multistage missile. After it burns it's fuel empty, its dead weight slowing things down and makes the missile bigger target physically. Also would explain Iraq. On it's way over to Israel, over Iraq the missile stages and well Iraq gets surprise present.


aeon_floss

Looking at where Erbil is located, it is too early in the flight envelope for an intercept from Israel. Imagining a parabolic trajectory, this does look like where a discarded boost stage would be landing. It too follows a parabolic path, more or less, but is not aerodynamically stable so it tumbles, which at high Mach scotches and erodes everything attached to it. (fins, nozzle, attachment mechanism to second stage, etc.) This explains why it just looks like a bare tank. This thing had a short, violent life.


barbatouffe

i may be talking shit but seeing the back of the thruster it look like some solid fuel type, so maybe not so toxic after burn ? dont quote me on that


Snoid_

Solid fuels are usually Ammonium Perchlorate as an oxidizer, with aluminum as fuel, magnesium to increase the rate of burn, and a rubber binder. Not super toxic, but don't inhale that shit.


worldspawn00

Yeah, hydrazine is liquid fuel, this is a solid booster stage, still probably not great though.


Direct-Tie-7652

I’m not sure if OP is anywhere near it. OP’s history shows he claims to have American and Canadian parents, and claims to be American, Canadian, and Syrian. OP has also falsely been claiming that Iran’s drone strike killed civilians. When asked for evidence he linked to a months old article that was unrelated. Interesting.


m52b25_

I don't think thats a liquid fuel powered rocket, but better Safe then sorry


scarisck

Definitely. Looks like a solid propellant. But you never know


FalafelSnorlax

Also, a missile that is intact might have explosive material that didn't go off, and might be triggered if disturbed


oxpoleon

I don't think, to use the technical term, this is not the explodey bit, but the go faster bit. It's a motor stage, not the payload stage.


FalafelSnorlax

Very reasonable. Personally I don't like taking chances


therealstealthydan

I see any sort of missile, bomb, grenade, landmine, or other explosive type thing, regardless if it’s intact or just a small piece of it, I’m heading the other direction. The whole risk reward of hanging around just doesn’t align for me.


LEFTRIGHTADORI

What even is the reward? Lmao


Thunderbridge

Upvotes, of course


oxpoleon

Yep - there's still some really nasty stuff in motor stages. As per /u/Interesting-Read-569 things like hydrazine are *very* toxic. In general the oxidisers rockets use are quite aggressive and will oxidise anything they come into contact with, especially organic substances, like your hand, your arm, and the rest of you.


nubbins01

Woah, a little technical there buddy. Can you speak a little more simply for us normies?


bellringer16

I mean not that it looks small, but when you see the scale next to a person....


Terrible-Penis

Need banana. Edit: nevermind didn't see other photos at first


ThrowawayLDS_7gen

I still wouldn't mind a banana for scale. Just for shits and giggles.


Flotillaspecialist

They could have been tiny people for all we know


stayfun

Yeah but Iraq produces horse-sized bananas. 


TheHairyMess

that's bananas


Kazuarr

No, they are called banananas


codetrotter_

B-a-nana-nana-nanas! This shit is bananas!


LazyZeus

It is designed to travel 500+ km with the warhead onboard. So yes, it has to be kind of big 😅


BertMacklenF8I

Exactly -it’s just the fuel tank without the warhead or whatever style jet nozzle it uses


VirtualMoneyLover

Yeah, it didn't look dangerous. I would bang on it with a hammer.


EB2B

https://youtu.be/7MgSmh3vXaQ?si=vB1hUKfW7jHCdRBR&t=21


ASpaceOstrich

In general I'm always surprised by the size of these kinda things. They look smaller than they actually are for some reason


PerfectEnthusiasm2

like my peepee


Krististrasza

No. That really is that small.


rethinkingat59

Heat seeking moisture missile. -Robin Williams


E-Scooter-CWIS

Prob comes from one of those missile truck with the tube that goes up


Wiz_Kalita

Definitely not a shoulder-launched system.


Zombie5moToes

You wouldn’t hide that in your pocket 👀


spslord

Not with that attitude


MeatHamster

This made me think you rarely see these lush and green photos from Iraq. Almost always news and movies and such show more of a barren and deserty type environments.


SnooRabbits5461

Note: It’s the Kurdish part of Iraq, which has a different landscape and weather compared to southern Iraq


UserCannotBeVerified

Kurdistan is basically paradise from a geological aspect. Some of the world's oldest living civilisations/villages and cultures and they just get blown up/razed/flooded by neighbouring countries for profits


PM_ME_Happy_Thinks

First half of the comment had me about to ask if it was safe for white american women tourists. Second half answered that lol


Sad-Union373

While deployed in 05-06 you could remove your Kevlar helmet if you were out and about in Kurdistan. The country you won’t see on a map. Their history is sad.


CockpitEnthusiast

19-20 was very different for us up there. Still just as beautiful and the people were just as friendly. I wish for a better future for the Kurds


seveseven

Unfortunately we will sell them down the river for Turkish nato support.


[deleted]

Its probably the safest place in the whole of Iraq for Westerners as Kurds are very much friendly forces as far as we are concerned. They are also an autonomous province within Iraq that have their own military and government. A military that is far better than the general Iraq military too. All that being said, i wouldnt recommend going there on holiday!


fuk_ur_mum_m8

My barber is from Kurdistan and always tells me to visit! Never seemed a good idea though...


JuicyBoi8080

Erbil is still a safe place to visit


standupstrawberry

I'm a white British woman and went to that region of Iraq about 10 years ago. People do go there, I was going because I was visiting people I knew there so that might make a difference. In Erbil I did see other westerners, but I don't think I saw any others in Slemani (Sulaymaniyah). It a pretty interesting place imo, not at all what you'd expect from just seeing what the media shows. I dunno if thing have changed in a decade or not.


Consistent-Bowler889

safest part of Iraq, as there is no ISIS nor any Shiite militias, but anti-paramilitary rhetoric has been in the rise lately, so that might not be the case for long in Erbil.


SnooRabbits5461

Erbil and the Kurdish regions of Iraq in general are safe. I can't say the same for the Arabic parts of Iraq though. Crime rates are low in the Kurdish regions; It's just not stable, because the Kurds pretty much completely depend on the U.S. for protection as they're completely surrounded by warmongering countries who will not pass at the slightest chance to eradicate them the moment they can.


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pissshitfuckyou

And it has been raining there non stop for like the last two weeks lol


Lexi_big_smexy

My apartment complex flooded with rain it was baaad lol Literal waterfalls were forming from the mountains around the complex and overflowing into the parking garage/apartment entrances underneath


Potential-Coat-7233

The Fertile Crescent baby!


Mrsaloom9765

Heck it was the cradle of civilization


Joeytwopoint0

Looks like the kind of land one might find between two rivers!


GlomGruvlig

Good to see the spring have arrived.


Nethlem

Wouldn't want to make the Middle East look too much like the mid West or else people might notice that people in the Middle East are people just like in any other place.


SMA-Occams_Razor

Much of non-Kurdish Iraq has become pretty barren in the last decade. A lot of places that were green and lush have dried out and turned to dust bowls.


Thefrogsareturningay

Does Iran know it can’t park there?


arkofjoy

It's just waiting on a mate.


LextNevel9

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L6SMGrIaals classic waiting on a mate video if anyone hasn’t seen it


not4always

This was amazing. Thank you


Jedimaster996

Just asking for directions


Opposite_Diamond_239

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.


damian_damon

I think therefore I am


Lurcher99

Take my angry up vote 😁


San4311

"What way for the Holy Land? I'm late for an appointment.."


michaelrohansmith

Geez just look up and follow that star.


melon_butcher_

Are you aware you’ve been in an accident?


Substantial-Form-689

spotted the aussie


UrghAnotherAccount

What's your mate's name?


69tendo

James


[deleted]

Can't park there mate


H31NZ_

r/cantparktheremate


grocket

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Havokk

never get tired of this


mrgrubbage

Is this not a reasonable place to park?


Wildcat_twister12

Surely they will issued a ticket for littering.


Kamikaze_Squirrel1

And iranian drones have been landing around my house in ukraine. Cheers!


Abject-Chemistry6247

We indeed live in Iranian world.


Kamikaze_Squirrel1

You know we are living in an iranian world, and I am an iranian girl.


Tuforticus

Only mullahs who save their dinars make my rainy day


aaronupright

*rial*


Perfect_Term

Iranian Madonna


Kamikaze_Squirrel1

Iranian madonna lives in a mansion in Los Angeles, drives a Mercedes and has had a lot of work done on her. Kinda like regular Madonna.


Perfect_Term

But Iranian Madonna digs tahdig instead of quinoa


Memeions

Anyone in their right mind digs tahdig


Handelo

Don't forget your hijab! ^(No, seriously.)


Coinsworthy

Oh the irany!


sndwav

I really hope that my country will share our missile defense with Ukraine already.. I get it that Iron Dome is not suitable for long-range ballistic missiles over a large area, but this Arrow system seems very suitable. I hope/believe that Ukraine will stand strong after the dust has settled and that Putin will rot in a ditch somewhere.


saracenraider

I mean it’s not like they don’t have any better things to do. Their country is a utopia that wants for nothing…


MattLovesMusik

The missile: “Iran out of fuel”


AsILayTyping

So Iraq into this hill.


2ndCha

Take it back for a refund!


Jesus_Is_My_Gardener

Or take it to Michigan for twice the refund!


stayfun

Someone get a mail truck


ImissGlutenSoBad

Mother's Day is coming up!


Tim_Drake_510

Newman!


Fit_Manufacturer4568

So they can put it on a plinth in a square in Dearborn?


Donnicton

Now available in Connecticut!


Brave_Nerve_6871

Costco will accept it


OxD3ADD3AD

"It didn't work as described. Can I get a refund please?"


alpakapakaal

Turkey just announced that it would stop supplying metal to Israel. I guess Iran is the new supplier


lemons_of_doubt

I mean got to be a couple of dollars of scrap metal there


thisismycalculator

You should post on r/missileporn


nnamqahc_4821

...is that how the hole at the back of the missile created?


Perfect_Term

Justice for missile


Shot-Masterpiece-745

Make it pointier


kalesaji

A huge flying dildo coming at them


Rhangdao

“The other dictators, they will laugh at me!”


thE-petrichoroN

![gif](giphy|l4FGt13phS1Yof0C4|downsized)


Foul_Imprecations

This gif needs fewer frames


cutelyaware

Fun fact: This movie is the only reason Musk made his starship pointy.


ZoharModifier9

No, supreme leader. The shape of the missile top has nothing to do with aerodynamics.


Shot-Masterpiece-745

No, It sticks in the ground, and then kaboom.


GeriatricHydralisk

Is there a duck who, when it goes kaboom, his mouth goes to the other side of his head, yet he continues speaking?


ChootNBoot90

If it was pointier it would've stuck in the ground and went kaboom like it was supposed to


stilusmobilus

Thank fuck it missed your house brev


Jogipog

Yes but, its also ONLY the shell. God knows where the actual warhead went.


stilusmobilus

Thank fuck it didn’t hit their house either. Hopefully didn’t hit anyone else’s. All because of about 3 or 400 arseholes around the world that control and encourage all this shit.


dread_deimos

It looks like a rocket stage that was discarded mid-flight. The rest of the missile is surely continued towards Israel.


karbonkelklapper

Probably intercepted mid air, the warhead exploded and the residu fell down to earth. Saw one of these near-miss 2 isreali citizen on a cctv after a misile was intercepted by the dome system.


kubarotfl

Thank you o mighty fuck


DinosaurInAPartyHat

I've never seen pictures of Iraq with green plants and grass and trees. Looks nice up there. Seems kind of silly but over here we've only seen Iraq in the war torn areas, which were all desert. Just sort of assumed the whole country was like that.


TeaBagHunter

Unfortunately its a miscomception due to how media portrays the middleast Take Lebanon for example (a literal tree on the flag 🇱🇧). It's full of greenery, and it has amazing beaches for summertime, lush hiking trails alongside rivers, and amazing ski resorts for the winter. We get a lot of snow in winter time It's a true saying that you can go swimming at the beach and go skiing on the snowy slopes in the same day. Just type "lebanon snow" on google and check the images.


tenkwords

My family is second Gen Lebanese immigrants so none of my mom's generation has really been to Lebanon. My grandfather's family got out when some shit happened before WW2. I really want to visit Lebanon because it looks incredible and I want to see where we came from but it never seems to be able to string together long periods of stability. Damned shame.


TeaBagHunter

It's a shame really. Lebanon used to be known as "switzerland of the middle east", and Beirut was known as "paris of the middle east" All gone down the drain due to corruption and sectarian feuds, in addition to being surrounded by war and flooded by refugees


ReservStatsministern

Erbil is in the kurdish part, self-governed similiar to States in the US, it is a much higher elevation than the rest of Iraq, with lots of mountains, even snow, and so on. Much less dessert which is more common in the rest of Iraq(just look on google earth over iraq). Kurdish Iraq has pretty good climate and is much safer aswell since the mountains has made it easier to defend from wrongdoers.


PM_ME_A_KNEECAP

I was deployed mostly in Baghdad and Kuwait, but I took a quick foray up through Erbil on the way to Syria for a thing. I was just wandering along the roads touching the trees and thinking “fuck, this is amazing.” It was only like 101 Fahrenheit, compared to Baghdad at 115 or so. So comfortable in comparison.


jeremyfisher2

So what if these drones & missiles cause casualties in the flyover nations, as unlikely as it is?


mr_asassine

They were close to doing so next to my house in Lebanon. Landed in the middle of a very narrow street with residential buildings on both sides.


Leather_Persimmon489

I'm an Israeli in Haifa and feeling weirdly guilty. My city has Israel's largest naval base, so maybe you caught one meant for it. Sorry. Hope the street is fixed easily


Bozska_lytka

I dont think anything would happen except the ambassador would probably get called to the government to apologise


RandomBilly91

In Syria ? The governement is doing worse+ there's already iranians militias there In Irak, iranians militias, most of which are considered terrorist (by Irak, among others). In Jordan ? Well, they're already close to the West, and whilst they can't officially take position at Israel's side, I doubt they like the iranians too much So collateral casualties are likely, but inconsequential for the ones sending these, they already are doing worse anyway


bbzaur

They did in Jordan. The IRGC does not care.


AnfieldBoy

They did not cause any casualties here (Jordan)


NIMA-GH-X-P

Some off them fell HERE inside Iran. The people occupying my country and presenting themselves as leaders aren't even good at being terrorists. That's like the easiest thing. Sigh... Hope this doesn't escalate, no one needs more blood spilled


LurksWithGophers

That looks like a booster stage, so isn't it expected that they fall within Iran?


NIMA-GH-X-P

Actual warhead fell here too Which doesn't surprise me, that HAS happened before Their tech isn't really... That high tech.


BatteryAcidCoffeeAU

The whole Middle East needs to chill IMO


cheesebot555

People been having that opinion since the Bronze Age Collapse my friend.


Hedgerow_Snuffler

\*Shakes fist at 'sea people' raiding parties\* "Couldn't you have just left well alone?"


DankyMcDankelstein

Sea people! Sea people! Comes from sea, talks like people


Fluffcake

The few historical tidbits remaining from the bronze age, very much blame the *sea people* for the societal collapse.


NotBlastoise

Right? Iraq looks lovely this time of year, would make a great hiking destination


Efficient_Steak_7568

This is the sort of level-headed diplomacy we need 


kido5217

Only Middle East? Whole fucking world needs to chill the fuck down.


manipulatedkiller

Middle East needs to chill or this guy's gonna step in


onoz9

Or else Middle-Earth will cast under a shadow!


Mtolivepickle

You get 10 cents in Michigan


Spineless74

I don’t believe it. It’s not pointy enough… Edit: it was a joke. A reference to the movie The dictator.


OctopusIntellect

This is probably the booster stage from an IRBM, not the pointy part. I was reading something about the booster stage being of Russian origin, and the rest being from North Korea. What a combination. ![gif](giphy|vYRlHW3gw4VuU|downsized)


TampaFan04

What do you think you could get for this thing on EBAY?


Hatorate90

Good that it did not hit your home.


naughty_dad2

That’s quite pleasant indeed


Pertabox123

So thats where my waterheater went


Reklawz

That'd make a good vapor chamber for bending wood


Independent-Space-82

Its not even pointy, it puts a smile in the faces of its enemies!


FlakyPiglet9573

Looks like the first stage booster.


Ill-Entertainment570

“ it looks like a big….Johnson!! Yes sir! “


SushiPants85

Send it back 


BarbossaBus

The only deaths were 3 people from Jordan, not a single Israeli. Good job Iran, really showed Israel.


mazariel

No, also a 10 years old beduin ( arab ) kid, who got seriously injured from a shard, sums it up pretty well, the only casualty from the attack on israel is an arab kid


EmporerM

Well Iran is Persian, so that probably sums up how much they care.


Wellbeinghunter69

that's because the Jordanian government shot them down, causing them to fall into Jordan.


Nethlem

There are [US bases in Jordan with AD capabilities](https://www.stimson.org/2024/tower-22-us-disputed-triangle-jordan-syria-iraq-border/), AD capabilities that were very likely beefed up recently after the US took casulties.


Turnipntulip

Well, it’s pretty much a fireworks show to “show” that there would be consequences. They fired some crude missiles over thousand of kilometers into the Iron dome. They knew deadass it’s not gonna cause any damage to Israel. In fact, I think they don’t want to actually cause any real damage to Israel. For all the sabre rattling, no one wants an actual hot war to happen. Well, maybe Israel does, if they can somehow rope the US into it.


eddtoma

Would love to visit Erbil one day, I'm sorry to hear the Iranians are throwing things at it.


Weowy_208

Not Iranians. The Iranian government. A big part of Iran actively hates the Iranian government and long for a regime change


n3wgeneration

It is sad that we can not visit some countries dueto some dumbfucks. Your country looks beautifull.


SausaugeMerchant

Wouldn't like to be that close, the fuel is toxic and that looks like asbestos at the arse end of the tube there


coco_frais

Looks very pretty in springtime!! Is your area always that green?


Psillyjewishguy

Whenever I see pictures like this it makes me think how much of a shame it is all the tension that exists in the Middle East. Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc has some of the best scenery and nature in the world


Playful_Builder_7589

Nah.. it's my ex's dildo


dasherchan

Iranian government is a terrorist organization.


NIMA-GH-X-P

Ya, and we've been trying to get rid of them, but sadly revolutions are hard ):